Journal
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 202-204Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.01.007
Keywords
Obesity; Peers; Social networks
Funding
- USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer [U54 CA 116848]
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Friendship choices and BMI were measured for 617 adolescents 11-15 years of age. Overweight youth were twice as likely to have overweight friends. There was a weak association between social position and weight status. Overweight youth nominated more friends but were nominated as friends less frequently than their normal weight peers. (c) 2009 Society for Adolescent Medicine. All rights reserved.
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