Monday, January 24, 2022

Living environment affects child’s weight development from birth to school age

A new study shows that living in asocioeconomic disadvantaged neighborhood is a risk factor for adverse weight development in children under school age. Researchers studied the connection between neighborhoods' socioeconomic status and children's weight development from data covering over 11,000 Finnish children.

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