Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity
- 25 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (13), 869-873
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199709253371301
Abstract
Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood, but how parental obesity affects the chances of a child's becoming an obese adult is unknown. We investigated the risk of obesity in young adulthood associated with both obesity in childhood and obesity in one or both parents.Keywords
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