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Obesity
Investigators at University of Bristol release new data on obesity
June 10th, 2008
" The developmental overnutrition hypothesis suggests that greater maternal obesity during pregnancy results in increased offspring adiposity in later life. If true, this would result in the obesity epidemic progressing across generations irrespective of environmental or genetic changes," scientists writing in the journal Plos Medicine report. "It is therefore important to robustly test this hypothesis. Methods and Findings We explored this hypothesis by comparing the associations of maternal and paternal pre-pregnancy body mass index ( BMI) with offspring dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) determined fat mass measured at 9 to 11 y ( 4,091 parent - offspring...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-10)
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