adolescents. Further data of 1944 3- to
10-year-old children were obtained from
the German cohort of the Identification
and prevention of Dietary- and lifestyleinduced
health EFfects in Children and
InfantS study (IDEFICS Wilhelmshaven
and Delmenhorst, Northwest Germany).
Details of the different studies have
been published previously.6,20–26 All study
protocols had been approved by the
local ethics committees.