Risk factors for childhood obesity: shift of the entire BMI distribution vs. shift of the upper tail only in a cross sectional study
Open Access
- 10 April 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 115
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-115
Abstract
Previous studies reported an increase of upper body mass index (BMI) quantiles for formula fed infants compared to breastfed infants, while corresponding mean differences were low. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of known risk factors for childhood obesity on the BMI distribution.Keywords
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