title: Parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children: the Toyama birth cohort study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine parental influence on the development of obesity in 9-year-old Japanese children.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 6-year follow-up study of obesity among 6,102 children born in Toyama prefecture.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After adjusting for obesity at age 3, either paternal obesity or maternal obesity at the age 3 survey more than double the risk of obesity at age 9 in both genders. Increases in parental body mass indexes (BMIs) from the age 3 survey through the age 9 survey were significantly associated with obesity at age 9 in girls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Not only parental obesity but also increases in parental BMIs were likely to be associated with development of obesity in children.
authors: Department of Preventive Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-ku, 216-8511, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, suka@marianna-u.ac.jp.
authors: Machi
authors: M
authors: Suka
authors: Hiroki
authors: H
authors: Sugimori
authors: Katsumi
authors: K
authors: Yoshida
authors: Michikazu
authors: M
authors: Sekine
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Yamagami
authors: Sadanobu
authors: S
authors: Kagamimori