Parental pre‐pregnancy BMI is a dominant early‐life risk factor influencing BMI of offspring in adulthood.

• Egile Nagusiak: S. R. Rath (Egilea), J. A. Marsh (Egilea), J. P. Newnham (Egilea), K. Zhu (Egilea), H. C. Atkinson (Egilea), J. Mountain (Egilea), W. H. Oddy (Egilea), I. P. Hughes (Egilea), M. Harris (Egilea), G. M. Leong (Egilea), A. M. Cotterill (Egilea), P. D. Sly (Egilea), C. E. Pennell (Egilea), C. S. Choong (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wiley, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary Objective We examined parental and early‐life variables in order to identify risk factors for adulthood overweight and obesity in offspring. We report here on the longitudinal prevalence of overweight and obesity in Australian children born between 1989 and 1991 and followed from birth to ag...