Preschool Weight and Body Mass Index in Relation to Central Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood

• Lise Graversen ,

  * E-mail: lgra@alm.au.dk (LG); m.jarvelin@imperial.ac.uk (MRJ)

  Affiliation Section for General Medical Practice, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,

  Affiliations Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Liselotte Petersen,

  Affiliation National Centre for Register-Based Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Ulla Sovio,

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

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• Marika Kaakinen,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Annelli Sandbaek,

  Affiliation Section for General Medical Practice, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Jaana Laitinen,

  Affiliation Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland

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• Anja Taanila,

  Affiliations Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Primary Health Care Unit, University Hospital of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Anneli Pouta,

  Affiliations National Institute of Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

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• Marjo-Riitta Järvelin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Carsten Obel

  * E-mail: lgra@alm.au.dk (LG); m.jarvelin@imperial.ac.uk (MRJ)

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Primary Health Care Unit, University Hospital of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, National Institute of Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland

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• Carsten Obel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Carsten Obel

  Affiliation Section for General Medical Practice, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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