BMJ  2005;330 (11 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7504.0-a

Targets for preventing childhood obesity are clearer

In early life (before age 3 years), the most prominent risk factors for childhood obesity are parental obesity and adiposity rebound by age 43 months. In a prospective cohort study including more than 8000 children aged 7 years, Reilly and colleagues (p 1357) assessed the association of 25 putative risk factors with childhood obesity. The eight newly established risk factors, which include sleeping less than 10.5 hours a night and watching television for more than eight hours a week at age 3 years, are new targets for future population based prevention programmes, the authors say.

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