How has child growth around adiposity rebound altered in Scotland since 1990 and what are the risk factors for weight gain using the Growing Up in Scotland birth cohort 1?

BACKGROUND: Adiposity rebound is considered critical to the development of overweight and obesity. The purpose of this study was to investigate how growth has changed in comparison to the UK 1990 BMI growth reference curves between the ages 4–8 years and identify any marked deviations in growth. We...

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Autores principales:	Doi, Lawrence, Williams, Andrew James, Frank, John
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2016
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064913/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27737667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3752-z