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Age at Puberty and the Emerging Obesity Epidemic

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have shown that puberty starts at younger ages than previously. It has been hypothesized that the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity is contributing to this trend. The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between prepubertal body mass index (BMI) an...

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Autores principales: Aksglaede, Lise, Juul, Anders, Olsen, Lina W., Sørensen, Thorkild I. A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20041184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008450