ObjectivesWe used a dynamic method of identifying household members from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) linked to National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) data estimate the likelihood children with obesity sharing an older child obesity, accounting for individual and characteristics.
 MethodsWe included 126,829 NCMP participants in four London boroughs assigned households encrypted Un...

A minimum age of the universe can be estimated directly by determining the age of the oldest objects in the our Galaxy. These objects are the metal-poor stars in the halo of the Milky Way. Recent work on nucleochronology finds that the oldest stars are 15.2 ± 3.7 Gyr old. White dwarf cooling curves have found a minimum age for the oldest stars of 8 Gyr. Currently, the best estimate for the age ...