Implications of childhood obesity for adult health findings

Implications of childhood obesity for adult health: findings from thousand families cohort study BMJ 2001:323:1280. Read the study objective, design, setting, and participants and the caption to determine which of Hills Criteria for causality is met. To determine whether being overweight/obese in childhood increases risk of adult overweight/obesity in adulthood. Prospective cohort study. City of Newcastle upon Tyne. 932 members of thousand families 1947 birth cohort, of whom 412 attended for clinical examination age 50. Temporal Relationship Dose-Response Relationship Consistency (Biological) Plausibility Strength of Association

Solution

answer :Strength of association

p (X^2)= 0.23