First-year college students’ weight change is influenced by their randomly assigned roommates’ BMI

BACKGROUND: There is ongoing debate about whether friends’ greater similarity in Body Mass Index (BMI) than non-friends is due to friend selection, shared environments, or peer influence. METHODS: First-year college students (n = 104) from a southwestern U.S. university were randomly assigned roomma...

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Autores principales: van Woerden, Irene, Hruschka, Daniel, Brewis, Alexandra, Schaefer, David R., Bruening, Meg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33232356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242681

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33232356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242681

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