Bereavement in Early Life and Later Childhood Overweight | Zendy

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Bereavement in Early Life and Later Childhood Overweight

Author(s) -

Jiong Li,

Jørn Olsen,

Mogens Vestergaard,

Carsten Obel,

Jennifer L. Baker,

Thorkild I. A. Sörensen

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

obesity facts

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1662-4033

pISSN - 1662-4025

DOI - 10.1159/000345933

Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , demography , early childhood , pediatrics , body mass index , gerontology , developmental psychology , psychology , sociology , pathology

The rise in the occurrence of childhood obesity during the last decades in many populations indicates an important role of environmental exposures, which may operate very early in life. We aimed to examine the association between bereavement during the first 6 years of life, as a stress indicator, and subsequent risk of overweight in school-aged children.

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