The effects of hypothetical behavioral interventions on the 13-year incidence of overweight/obesity in children and adolescents

• Main Authors: C. Börnhorst (Author), I. Pigeot (Author), S. De Henauw (Author), A. Formisano (Author), L. Lissner (Author), D. Molnár (Author), L. A. Moreno (Author), M. Tornaritis (Author), T. Veidebaum (Author), T. Vrijkotte (Author), V. Didelez (Author), M. Wolters (Author), on behalf of the GrowH! consortium (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In view of the high burden of childhood overweight/obesity (OW/OB), it is important to identify targets for interventions that may have the greatest effects on preventing OW/OB in early life. Using methods of causal inference, we studied the effects of sustained behavioral interv...