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Genetic predisposition to adiposity is associated with increased objectively assessed sedentary time in young children.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Jan 2018
Schnurr T M, Viitasalo A, Eloranta A-M, Damsgaard C T, Mahendran Y, Have C T, Väistö J, Hjorth M F, Christensen L B, Brage S, Atalay M, Lyytikäinen L-P, Lindi V, Lakka T, Michaelsen K F, Kilpeläinen T O, Hansen T
Abstract excerpt
Increased sedentariness has been linked to the growing prevalence of obesity in children, but some longitudinal studies suggest that sedentariness may be a consequence rather than a cause of increased adiposity. We used Mendelian randomization to examine the causal relations between body mass index (BMI) and objectively assessed sedentary time and physical activity in 3-8 year-old children from one Finnish and...
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