Maternal weight gain between pregnancies and childhood body mass index - using sibling analysis to address confounding by shared lifestyle

ABSTRACT Objective Maternal obesity during pregnancy is a risk factor for increased childhood body mass index (BMI) and the mechanism may be causal or confounded by lifestyle common to mother and child. We studied BMI in siblings and their mothers to test the hypothesis that siblings born after mat...

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Main Authors: Steve Turner, Lorna Aucott, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Geraldine McNeill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/22