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J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:27 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719a
  • Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B
  • Lifecourse obesity

Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of two generations of the 1958 British birth cohort

  1. L. Li,
  2. A. Pinot de Moira,
  3. C. Power
  1. MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK

      Objective

      To investigate whether risk factors for childhood obesity have changed over time, either in their strength of influence or prevalence.

      Design

      Prospective cohort study.

      Setting

      Great Britain.

      Participants

      The 1958 birth cohort and a sub-sample of their offspring. Height and weight measures, and information on pre-natal and early life factors were collected on cohort members aged 7 years in …

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