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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Childhood adiposity"”.
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Genetic Determinants of Body Weight and Physical Maturation Across the Life Course
… for adult health are early puberty timing and childhood obesity. Both factors are influenced by the environment, as demonstrated by their rapid increase in prevalence over time, but their susceptibility is also largely genetically determined. This thesis aimed to investigate the genetic …
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La glycémie maternelle en grossesse et la leptine dans le sang de cordon : des déterminants de l’adiposité dans l’enfance
Childhood overweight and obesity are serious public health issues that affect both the physical and mental health of children. In the province of Quebec, more than a quarter of children are overweight. Exposure to maternal hyperglycaemia complicated or not by gestational diabetes (GDM), maternal …
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Essays on childhood obesity
This dissertation consists of three essays on childhood obesity. The first essay, “What Money Can Buy: Family Income and Childhood Obesity” investigates the relationship between family income and childhood obesity using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K). …
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Examining Causal Determinants of Childhood Obesity and Pubertal Timing
Childhood obesity is a rapidly escalating public health crisis, with prevalence rates increasing from 4% in 1975 to 18% in 2016 among children aged 5-19 years worldwide. This rise in obesity may contribute to the secular trend towards earlier pubertal development on a global scale. Both childhood …