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Socioeconomic patterns of overweight, obesity but not thinness persist from childhood to adolescence in a 6 -year longitudinal cohort of Australian schoolchildren from 2007 to 2012

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity increased during the 1980s to the late 1990s. The prevalence of obesity is higher in socially and economically disadvantaged communities in most Westernised countries. The purpose of this study was to examine how the socioeconomic gradie...

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Autores principales: O’Dea, Jennifer A, Chiang, Hueiwen, Peralta, Louisa R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24592991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-222