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. 1977 Jan 1;1(6052):7–9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6052.7

Do fat babies stay fat?

E M Poskitt, T J Cole
PMCID: PMC1603583  PMID: 832000

Abstract

A total of 203 children included in a study of feeding practices and weight in infancy were reviewed four to five years later. Although in infancy 28 (14%) of the children were obese and a further 52 (26%) overweight, in childhood most were of normal weight and fatness, with only 5 (2-5%) obese and 22 (11%) overweight, Three of the five obese children were also obese as infants, but only one in nine obese infants was obese at 5 years. Weight in infancy does not necessarily indicate later body size. Tall stature of the children was probably related to their socioeconomic environment.

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