Excess weight and obesity prevalence in the RPS Brazilian Birth Cohort Consortium (Ribeirão Preto, Pelotas and São Luís)

• Main Authors: Carolina Abreu de Carvalho (Author), Elma Izze da Silva Magalhães (Author), Heloisa Bettiol (Author), Marco Antonio Barbieri (Author), Viviane Cunha Cardoso (Author), Alicia Matijasevich (Author), Ana Maria Baptista Menezes (Author), Bernardo Lessa Horta (Author), Fernando C. Wehrmeister (Author), Helen Gonçalves (Author), Iná S. Santos (Author), Natália Peixoto Lima (Author), Ana Karina Teixeira da Cunha França (Author), Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva (Author)
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• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of excess weight and obesity, according to sex and income in the RPS Brazilian Birth Cohort Consortium (Ribeirão Preto, Pelotas, and São Luís). Participants in the Ribeirão Preto (1978/1979 and 1994), Pelotas (1982, 1993 and 2004) and São Luís (1997...