Social Patterning in Adiposity in Adolescence: Prospective Observations from the Chinese Birth Cohort ''Children of 1997''.

Low early life socio-economic position is more strongly associated with adiposity among women than men. We examined whether the sex difference of social patterning in general and central adiposity exists before adulthood.In Hong Kong's "Children of 1997" birth cohort, we used multivar...

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Main Authors: L L Hui, Gabriel M Leung, C Mary Schooling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4703380?pdf=render