Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain in Relation to Child Body Mass Index Among Siblings
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Prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain in relation to child body mass index among siblings.
There is increasing evidence that in utero effects of excessive gestational weight gain may result in increased weight in children; however, studies have not controlled for shared genetic or environmental factors between mothers and children. Using 2,758 family groups from the Collaborative Perinatal Project, the authors examined the association of maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) an...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr250