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Extending the History of Child Obesity in the United States: The Fels Longitudinal Study, Birth Years 1930 to 1993

OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the prevalence of child obesity in the U.S. before the first national survey in 1963. There is disagreement about whether the obesity epidemic is entirely a recent phenomenon or a continuation of longstanding trends. METHODS: We analyze the BMIs of 1,116 children who...

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Autores principales: von Hippel, Paul T., Nahhas, Ramzi W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3695078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20395