Modifiable environmental influences on body mass index shared by young adult brothers

B Rokholm; K Silventoinen; P Tynelius; T I A Sørensen; Finn Rasmussen

doi:10.1038/ijo.2012.151

Modifiable environmental influences on body mass index shared by young adult brothers

B Rokholm, K Silventoinen, P Tynelius, T I A Sørensen, Finn Rasmussen

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Abstract

Twin and adoption studies suggest that family environment has little, if any, influence on body mass index (BMI) in adulthood. We investigated the hypothesis that the differences in the years of birth between siblings influence their similarity in BMI at comparable ages, which would give evidence for a possibly modifiable influence of the environment shared by family members.

Original language	English
Journal	International journal of obesity (2005)
Volume	37
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	211-5
Number of pages	5
ISSN	0307-0565
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2012.151
Publication status	Published - Feb 2013

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Body Mass Index
Body Weight
Environment
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Military Personnel
Obesity
Questionnaires
Regression Analysis
Siblings
Sweden
Time Factors
Twins, Dizygotic

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