Open AccessAssociation of Self-regulation With Obesity in Boys vs Girls in a US National Sample
Author(s) -
Sarah Anderson,
Robert C. Whitaker
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jama pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 2168-6211
pISSN - 2168-6203
DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.1413
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , toddler , quartile , percentile , demography , obesity , childhood obesity , body mass index , cohort , prospective cohort study , overweight , cohort study , pediatrics , confidence interval , developmental psychology , psychology , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Poor self-regulation in childhood is associated with increased risk of obesity. However, studies have assumed that greater self-regulation is associated with a lower obesity risk and have rarely examined differences in the association by sex.
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