The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

Alessandra Prioreschi; Richard J. Munthali; Juliana Kagura; Rihlat Said-Mohamed; Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe; Lisa K. Micklesfield; Shane A. Norris

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190483

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The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

Alessandra Prioreschi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: alessandra.prioreschi@wits.ac.za

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-0706

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Richard J. Munthali,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Juliana Kagura,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Rihlat Said-Mohamed,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Lisa K. Micklesfield,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Shane A. Norris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa

Alessandra Prioreschi,
Richard J. Munthali,
Juliana Kagura,
Rihlat Said-Mohamed,
Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe,
Lisa K. Micklesfield,
Shane A. Norris

Published: January 16, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190483

About the Authors

Alessandra Prioreschi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: alessandra.prioreschi@wits.ac.za

Affiliation MRC/WITS Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-0706

Richard J. Munthali

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Juliana Kagura

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Rihlat Said-Mohamed

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Emanuella De Lucia Rolfe

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lisa K. Micklesfield

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Shane A. Norris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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