Melissa Wake

Consultant Paediatrician; Director of Research and Associate Director, Centre for Community Child Health

Childhood has become the critical period when socioeconomic inequalities in overweight emerge and strengthen, the study found. MaST Charter

July 30, 2013

Disadvantaged kids more likely to be overweight by age four

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are already more likely to be overweight by age four than median income families, but the differences become much more marked as childhood progresses, a new…

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