Childhood Adiposity, Adult Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Juonala, Markus; G. Magnussen, Costan; S. Berenson, Gerald; Venn, Alison; L. Burns, Trudy; A. Sabin, Matthew; R. Srinivasan, Sathanur; R. Daniels, Stephen; H. Davis, Patricia; Chen, Wei; Sun, Cong; Cheung, Michael; Viikari, Jorma; Dwyer, Terence; T. Raitakari, Olli

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1010112

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Childhood Adiposity, Adult Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Nov 17, 2011

Authors:

Markus Juonala

Costan G. Magnussen

Gerald S. Berenson

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Obesity in childhood is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. It is uncertain whether this risk is attenuated in persons who are overweight or obese as children but not obese as adults. METHODS: We analyzed data from four prospective cohort studies that measured childhood and ad...

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Medicine

Overweight

Relative risk

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