Post-Term Birth is Associated with Greater Risk of Obesity in Adolescent Males

Jacques Beltrand,Tanya K. Soboleva,P.R. Shorten,José G. B. Derraik,Paul Hofman,Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland,Zeev Hochberg,Wayne S. Cutfield

Post-Term Birth is Associated with Greater Risk of Obesity in Adolescent Males

2012

Jacques Beltrand
Tanya K. Soboleva
P.R. Shorten
José G. B. Derraik
Paul Hofman
Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
Zeev Hochberg
Wayne S. Cutfield

Objective: To test the hypothesise that post-term birth (>42 weeks gestation) adversely affects longitudinal growth and weight gain throughout childhood.

Keywords:

Post Term Birth
Obesity
Weight gain
Diabetes mellitus
Body mass index
Gestation
Pediatrics
Obstetrics
Birth weight
Medicine
Low birth weight

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