Having siblings promotes a more healthy weight status—Whereas only children are at greater risk for higher BMI in later childhood

• Claudia Bohn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Mandy Vogel,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Tanja Poulain,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Andreas Hiemisch,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents and Centre for Paediatric Research (CPL), Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Wieland Kiess,

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

  Affiliations Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents and Centre for Paediatric Research (CPL), Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Antje Körner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antje.koerner@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliations Medical Faculty, LIFE Child (Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases), Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents and Centre for Paediatric Research (CPL), Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6001-0356

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