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Intrauterine Growth Retardation

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Pediatric Obesity

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The secular trends towards increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity are detectable even in very young pre-school age children. For example, analysis of routine health check data in the UK showed a steady rise in mean body weight and BMI between 1989 and 1998 in children aged just 3–4 years old (1). Such findings indicate that our attention to the aetiology, prediction and prevention of obesity should start very early on in life to include even antenatal and early infancy factors.

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Ong, K.K. (2010). Intrauterine Growth Retardation. In: Freemark, M. (eds) Pediatric Obesity. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-874-4_8

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