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Ethnic differences in overweight and obese children in England
Vanessa Higgins, Anne Dale
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Abstract
Objective: (1) To determine ethnic differences in child overweight/obesity after controlling for a range of mothers’ socio-economic characteristics and parental Body Mass Index (BMI) (2) To determine the importance of parental BMI and mothers’ socio-economic status in attenuating overweight/obesity for boys and girls from different ethnic groups