Predicting childhood overweight and obesity using maternal and early life risk factors: a systematic review

Childhood obesity is a serious public health challenge, and identification of high‐risk populations with early intervention to prevent its development is a priority. We aimed to systematically review prediction models for childhood overweight/obesity and critically assess the methodology of their development, validation and reporting.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Obesity Reviews

• Publication date

  2017-12-19

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/obr.12640PMID 29266702PMCID 5805129
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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