Early Life Factors and Inter-Country Heterogeneity in BMI Growth Trajectories of European Children: The IDEFICS Study.
BACKGROUND:Starting from birth, this explorative study aimed to investigate between-country differences in body mass index (BMI) trajectories and whether early life factors explain these differences. METHODS:The sample included 7,644 children from seven European countries (Belgium, Cyprus, Germany,...
Main Authors: | Claudia Börnhorst, Alfonso Siani, Paola Russo, Yannis Kourides, Isabelle Sion, Denés Molnár, Luis A Moreno, Gerardo Rodríguez, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Laura Howe, Lauren Lissner, Kirsten Mehlig, Susann Regber, Karin Bammann, Ronja Foraita, Wolfgang Ahrens, Kate Tilling |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4762899?pdf=render |
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