Sibling absence and body mass index: From adolescence to adulthood

To examine if sibling absence is associated with higher BMI and to identify potential lifestyle factors underlying this effect; to determine if sibling effects on BMI persist into adulthood.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Pediatric obesity

• Publication date

  2022-02-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ijpo.12899PMID 35146941PMCID PMC10409612
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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