Associations among height, body mass index and intelligence from age 11 to age 78 years
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Associations among height, body mass index and intelligence from age 11 to age 78 years
BACKGROUND Intelligence is related to both height and body mass index (BMI) at various stages of life. Several studies have demonstrated longitudinal relationships between these measures, but none has established whether height and intelligence, or BMI and intelligence are linked from childhood through to older age. METHODS We assessed the relations between these measures over an interval of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-016-0340-0