Risk factors for childhood obesity: shift of the entire BMI distribution vs. shift of the upper tail only in a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Previous studies reported an increase of upper body mass index (BMI) quantiles for formula fed infants compared to breastfed infants, while corresponding mean differences were low. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of known risk factors for childhood obesity on the BMI distr...

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Autores principales: Toschke, André M, von Kries, Rüdiger, Beyerlein, Andreas, Rückinger, Simon
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2322977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18402677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-115

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2322977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18402677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-115

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