Open AccessParental Obesity and Early Childhood Development
Author(s) -
Edwina Yeung,
Rajeshwari Sundaram,
Akhgar Ghassabian,
Yunlong Xie,
Germaine M. Buck Louis
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2016-1459
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , obesity , underweight , gross motor skill , demography , odds , body mass index , pregnancy , childhood obesity , pediatrics , overweight , motor skill , psychiatry , logistic regression , biology , genetics , sociology
Previous studies identified associations between maternal obesity and childhood neurodevelopment, but few examined paternal obesity despite potentially distinct genetic/epigenetic effects related to developmental programming.
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