- A recent study in the NEJM has found 90% of children who were obese at age 3 were still overweight or obese in adolescence, and that the majority of adolescents with normal weight had maintained that weight throughout their entire childhood. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1803527?query=endocrinology 2 comments science
- Obesity onset occurs early in life, with the greatest excessive weight gain occurring between 2 and 6 years of age, and once it develops, it persists into adolescence - NEJM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1803527 15 comments science
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