Overweight in childhood and adolescence.

By W. Dietz. New England Journal of Medicine, 2004

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Adult Consequences of Fetal Growth Restriction (2006, background): “These observations demonstrate that CHD is independently associated with both prenatal and postnatal growth.(33) One explanation of the associations with thinness at birth and at 2 years of age is that babies who are thin or short at birth and during infancy lack muscle, a deficiency that will persi”
Development and Evaluation of a Genetic Risk Score for Obesity (2013, positive): “It will be important in subsequent investigations to evaluate our obesity GRS in longitudinal cohorts that capture a broader section of the life course, and particularly in young people, as they are a key prevention target (Belsky et al. 2012; Dietz 2004).”