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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...
Autores principales: | van Woerden, Irene, Hruschka, Daniel, Brewis, Alexandra, Schaefer, David R., Bruening, Meg |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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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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