Prevalence of overweight and obesity in British children: cohort study
- 16 October 1999
- Vol. 319 (7216) , 1039
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7216.1039
Abstract
Subjects consisted of a birth cohort randomly selected from a larger geographically defined total population cohort born in the Bristol-Avon area in 1991-2. The cohort has been described elsewhere2 and is broadly representative of children in the United Kingdom. Height (to 0.1 cm, measured with a Leicester height meter) and weight in underwear (to 0.1 kg, measured with Seca scales) were measured in children at 24, 49 and 61 months of age.Keywords
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