A lifetime of obesity: what does it mean for how we manage physically later on?

Snehal Pinto Pereira discusses research looking at the links between obesity across childhood into adulthood and their ability to manage daily physical tasks later on in life

Show Notes

Snehal Pinto Pereira from ICLS discusses her research in the International Journal of Epidemiology looking at the links between obesity across childhood into adulthood and their ability to manage daily physical tasks later on in life. 

Details of the papers discussed in the podcast

Adult obesity and mid-life physical functioning in two British birth cohorts: investigating the mediating role of physical inactivity is research by Snehal M Pinto Pereira, Bianca L De Stavola, Nina T Rogers, Rebecca Hardy, Rachel Cooper, Chris Power.

Birthweight, lifetime obesity and physical functioning in mid-adulthood: a nationwide birth cohort study is research by Nina Rogers, Chris Power and Snehal M Pinto Pereira.

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