The development of youth-onset severe obesity in urban US girls

The development of youth-onset severe obesity in urban US girls

Objective: To understand the incidence and persistence of severe obesity (≥1.2 × 95th BMI percentile-for-age) in girls across the transition to adolescence, and map developmental trajectories of adolescent severe obesity in a high-risk sample. Methods: We examined ten years of prospectively collecte...

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Main Authors: Kathleen M. McTigue, Stephanie D. Stepp, Charity G. Moore, Elan D. Cohen, Alison E. Hipwell, Rolf Loeber, Lewis H. Kuller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology
Subjects:
Obesity
Adolescent
Urban health
Epidemiology
Body weight
Longitudinal studies
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