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Early life course risk factors for childhood obesity: the IDEFICS case-control study.

Abstract
The early life course is assumed to be a critical phase for childhood obesity; however the significance of single factors and their interplay is not well studied in childhood populations.

The investigation of pre-, peri- and postpartum risk factors on the risk of obesity at age 2 to 9.
A case-control study with 1,024 1:1-matched case-control pairs was nested in the baseline survey (09/2007-05/2008) of the IDEFICS study, a population-based intervention study on childhood obesity carried out in 8 European countries in pre- and primary school settings. Conditional logistic regression was used for identification of risk factors.