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Depressive symptoms and obesity: instrumental variable analysis using mother-offspring pairs in the 1970 British Cohort Study.

International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Nov 2016

Hamer M, Batty G D, Kivimaki M

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BACKGROUND: The extent to which depression and obesity are causally related remains to be determined. We used intergenerational data on mother-offspring pairs in an instrumental variable analysis to examine the longitudinal association between adolescent depressive symptoms and body mass index (BMI) in adulthood. METHODS: A total of 4733 mother-offspring pairs were identified from the 1970 British Cohort Study....

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PMID: 27528254
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2016.143

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