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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 11, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(1):108-109; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl280
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Should I blame mom or dad? Identifying the relative contribution of each parent's body size to that of their offspring

Robert C Whitaker

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., P.O. Box 2393, Princeton, NJ 08543-2393, USA.

E-mail: rwhitaker@mathematica-mpr.com

Accepted 22 November 2006

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There is increasing agreement that preventing obesity in childhood is a sensible long-term approach to halting the obesity epidemic. However, there is little consensus about how early in life to start interventions to prevent obesity, what these interventions should be and whether these interventions should focus on all children or only on some children. Despite interest in beginning interventions early in life, we still don't understand the aetiologies of the many conditions that are lumped together under the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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