An ecological systems approach to examining risk factors for early childhood overweight: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

• Publication date

  2008-09-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1136/jech.2008.077917PMID 18801795PMCID PMC2678539
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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