Childhood Obesity
BMJPublished 15 July 1961Open access
June K. Lloyd, O. Wolff, W. S. Whelen
Citations145
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The results of a nine-year prospective study of the weights and heights of a group of 98 overweight children are presented, finding the prognosis tended to be worse for the girls than for the boys.
Abstract
There are only a few studies of the natural history of childhood obesity. Mullins (1958) found about one-third of adults attending his out-patient department to be over- weight, and in one-third of these the obesity dated from childhood.
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Medicine
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