The Need for Greater Rigor in Childhood Nutrition and Obesity Research

Affiliations

¹ US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
² Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Division of Genomics and Data Sciences, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Alexis C Wood et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 1;173(4):311-312.

doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0015.

¹ US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
² Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Division of Genomics and Data Sciences, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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