How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.

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Published in BMJ Open on August 21, 2013

Authors

Lucy J Griffiths1, Mario Cortina-Borja, Francesco Sera, Theodora Pouliou, Marco Geraci, Carly Rich, Tim J Cole, Catherine Law, Heather Joshi, Andrew R Ness, Susan A Jebb, Carol Dezateux

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

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