![]() ![]() PredictorsBody satisfaction was our primary exposure.īody satisfaction was assessed using a single item from the validated McKnight Risk Factor Survey (MRFS). All girls from the 1996-2007 waves of GUTS who were overweight or obese in 1996 and provided information in one or more consecutive cycles (n=1 559) were included in the present analysis.The study was approved by the human subjects committees at Children’s Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. ![]() Participants were asked to complete questionnaires annually from 1996 to 2001, and then biennially through 2007. Approximately 68% of the invited female participants (n=9 039) returned completed questionnaires, thereby assenting to participate in the cohort study. Participants were 9 to 14 years old at enrollment in 1996. They are the offspring of women participating in the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study II (NHSII), a cohort study of over 116 000 female registered nurses. ![]() SubjectsParticipants are members of the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), an ongoing cohort study of adolescents throughout the United States that was established in 1996. ![]()
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