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Rüdiger von Kries
English
Epidemiology
Medicine/Public Health, general
Public Health
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overweight: is there a dose–response relationship? An individual patient data meta-analysis
A number of meta-analyses suggest an association between any maternal smoking in pregnancy and offspring overweight obesity. Whether there is a dose–response relationship across number of cigarettes and whethe...
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Open AccessRisk factors for childhood obesity: shift of the entire BMI distribution vs. shift of the upper tail only in a cross sectional study
Previous studies reported an increase of upper body mass index (BMI) quantiles for formula fed infants compared to breastfed infants, while corresponding mean differences were low. The aim of this study was to...
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Open AccessVaccination coverage in children can be estimated from health insurance data
The introduction of new vaccines for young children requires instruments for a rapid and timely assessment of the progressively increasing vaccination coverage. We assessed whether routine data generated by st...
