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Article: Relationships among Body Mass Index, Parental Perceptions, Birthweight and Parental Weight after Referral to a Weight Clinic
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Medical Association
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
- Author:
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Financial support: This work was supported in part by 1K23DK065995 award (JK-V) and by T32 DK071212 award (MW).
Objective: We sought to determine whether, in a specialty referral clinic, parental perceptions of their child's obesity were commensurate with the child's body mass index z score. Secondarily, we examined the impact of birth weight and parental body mass index on their child's body mass index z score and review results of an intake questionnaire.
Design: Cross-sectional study
Setting: University of Michigan from March 21, 2003 through June 30, 2004
Participants: Eighty-two children ages 1-20.2 years of age
Intervention: Body mass index z score for all participants was calculated. ...