East Tennessean
page 2 Nov.
12, 2012
A researcher in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health has found that children
are more at risk of being overweight if they are born
of mothers who smoked within one year before giving
birth.
Dr....
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East Tennessean
page 2 Nov.
12, 2012
A researcher in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health has found that children
are more at risk of being overweight if they are born
of mothers who smoked within one year before giving
birth.
Dr.
Liang Wang, an assistant professor in the ETSU
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, studied
the correlation between the smoking habits of mothers and children in elementary school.
His study was
published in the latest edition of the journal Pediatric
Obesity.
Wang’s investigation focused on children in first
through sixth grade who were classified as overweight
— specifically, those with a body mass index that puts
them in the 85th percentile or above as compared to
their peers.
Children were more likely to be overweight
if their mothers smoked a year prior to giving birth, and
they were also more likely to have higher BMI averages, Wang said.
He drew his conclusions from extensive study of data from the National Insti
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