Curbing the Obesity Epidemic – Predicting Which Kids Will Be Obese

June 30, 2007 | by DoctorSolve

The obesity epidemic has become a major public health problem in both industrialized countries and the developing world. A Swedish group has created a protocol that detects with high precision which pre-adolescent children will become obese later using only weight and height data. read more | digg story

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