Infection, not antibiotics, in infancy tied to later obesity

04 Nov 2016


Untreated infections during infancy, not antibiotics, may increase the risk of childhood obesity, according to results from a large Kaiser Permanente study published online in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

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