Friendship as a social mechanism influencing body mass index (BMI) among emerging adults

• Meg Bruening ,

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

  * E-mail: meg.bruening@asu.edu

  Affiliation College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8301-8040

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• Irene van Woerden,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6339-5335

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• David R. Schaefer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of California–Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

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• Daniel Hruschka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Alexandra Brewis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Corrie M. Whisner,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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• Genevieve F. Dunton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Michael Todd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1981-4245

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• Punam Ohri-Vachaspati,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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• Melissa N. Laska

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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