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Early postnatal BMI adaptation is regulated during a fixed time period and mainly depends on maternal BMI.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Apr 2010
Brune Bettina C, Gerlach Maria K, Seewald Markus J, Brune Thomas G
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, we investigated whether there are critical time periods which influence the course of BMI during the first 6 years of life. From 5,433 children who participated in preschool examinations those 212 children were selected who crossed the BMI percentiles as a result of an extreme postnatal BMI rise (from <10th to 90th percentile) or fall (from >90th to <10th percentile) or who have persistently...
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