Open AccessWhen do mothers think their child is overweight?
Author(s) -
Kathryn Parkinson,
Robert Drewett,
Angela R. Jones,
Anne Dale,
Mark S. Pearce,
Charlotte Wright,
Ashley Adamson
Publication year - 2011
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.2010.260
Subject(s) - overweight , waist , medicine , bioelectrical impedance analysis , body mass index , obesity , circumference , demography , cross sectional study , cohort , pediatrics , endocrinology , geometry , mathematics , pathology , sociology
To quantify how overweight children have to be for their mothers to classify them as overweight and to express concern about future overweight, and to investigate the adiposity cues in children that mothers respond to.
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