Birth Weight and Long-Term Overweight Risk: Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis Including 643,902 Persons from 66 Studies and 26 Countries Globally

Karen Schellong; Sandra Schulz; Thomas Harder; Andreas Plagemann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047776

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Birth Weight and Long-Term Overweight Risk: Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis Including 643,902 Persons from 66 Studies and 26 Countries Globally

Karen Schellong ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Schellong, Sandra Schulz

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Sandra Schulz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Schellong, Sandra Schulz

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Thomas Harder,

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Andreas Plagemann

* E-mail: andreas.plagemann@charite.de

Affiliation Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of ‘Experimental Obstetrics’, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Birth Weight and Long-Term Overweight Risk: Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis Including 643,902 Persons from 66 Studies and 26 Countries Globally

Karen Schellong,
Sandra Schulz,
Thomas Harder,
Andreas Plagemann

Published: October 17, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047776

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