Estimation of Newborn Risk for Child or Adolescent Obesity: Lessons from Longitudinal Birth Cohorts

Prevention of obesity should start as early as possible after birth. We aimed to build clinically useful equations estimating the risk of later obesity in newborns, as a first step towards focused early prevention against the global obesity epidemic. We analyzed the lifetime Northern Finland Birth C...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 7; no. 11; p. e49919
Main Authors:	Morandi, Anita, Meyre, David, Lobbens, Stéphane, Kleinman, Ken, Kaakinen, Marika, Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L., Vatin, Vincent, Gaget, Stefan, Pouta, Anneli, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Laitinen, Jaana, Ruokonen, Aimo, Das, Shikta, Khan, Anokhi Ali, Elliott, Paul, Maffeis, Claudio, Gillman, Matthew W., Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Froguel, Philippe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 28.11.2012 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adolescent Adolescent obesity Adolescents Adult Age Birth Weight Body mass Body Mass Index Calculators Cardiovascular disease Child Child development Child health Childbirth & labor Childhood obesity Children Clinical medicine Cohort Studies Colorectal cancer Diabetes Disease prevention Epidemics Epidemiology Female Finland - epidemiology Genetic aspects Genetic counseling Genetic diversity Genetic polymorphisms Genetic variance Gynecology Health sciences Humans Logistic Models Male Maternal behavior Mathematical analysis Mathematical models Medicine Middle Aged Neonates Newborn infants Nutrition Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - prevention & control Obstetrics Pediatrics Predictions Prevention Public health Risk Risk analysis Risk factors Social behavior Sociodemographics Teenagers Type 2 diabetes White People Young Adult Finland United Kingdom > UK France United States > US Massachusetts
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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