Open AccessBMI peak in infancy as a predictor for later BMI in the Uppsala Family Study
Author(s) -
Richard Silverwood,
Bianca De Stavola,
Tim J. Cole,
David A. Leon
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1476-5497
pISSN - 0307-0565
DOI - 10.1038/ijo.2009.108
Subject(s) - body mass index , medicine , demography , obesity , overweight , childhood obesity , pediatrics , multilevel model , statistics , mathematics , sociology
The development of obesity through childhood, often characterized by using body mass index (BMI), has received much recent interest because of the rapidly increasing levels of obesity worldwide. However, the extent to which the BMI trajectory in the first year of life (the BMI 'peak' in particular) is associated with BMI in later childhood has received little attention.