Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity

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Robert C. Whitaker · Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Jeffrey A. Wright · University of Washington

Margaret S. Pepe · Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Kristy Seidel · Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa

Abstract

Background Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood, but how parental obesity affects the chances of a child's becoming an obese adult is unknown. We investigated the risk of obesity in young adulthood associated with both obesity in childhood and obesity in one or both parents.

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Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Birth, Development, and Health Diet and metabolism studies

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 337, Issue 13, pp. 869-873

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199709253371301

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Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity

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