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Food and body weights
Does child–parent resemblance in body weight status vary by sociodemographic factors in the USA?

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  • Qi Zhang School of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rajan Lamichhane Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hsin-Jen Chen Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hong Xue Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health (former Department of Social and Preventive Medicine), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Youfa Wang Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health (former Department of Social and Preventive Medicine), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Qi Zhang, Old Dominion University, 3138 Health Sciences Building, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA; qzhang{at}odu.edu
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Zhang Q, Lamichhane R, Chen H, et al
Does child–parent resemblance in body weight status vary by sociodemographic factors in the USA?
J Epidemiol Community Health 2014;68:1034-1042.

Publication history

  • Received October 4, 2013
  • Revised July 9, 2014
  • Accepted July 10, 2014
  • First published July 24, 2014.
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April 27, 2016

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