Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts.

Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts.

<h4>Background</h4>Smokers tend to weigh less than never smokers, while successful quitting leads to an increase in body weight. Because smokers and non-smokers may differ in genetic and environmental family background, we analysed data from twin pairs in which the co-twins differed by t...

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Main Authors: Maarit Piirtola, Aline Jelenkovic, Antti Latvala, Reijo Sund, Chika Honda, Fujio Inui, Mikio Watanabe, Rie Tomizawa, Yoshinori Iwatani, Juan R Ordoñana, Juan F Sánchez-Romera, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Adam D Tarnoki, David L Tarnoki, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Sarah E Medland, Finn Rasmussen, Per Tynelius, Qihua Tan, Dongfeng Zhang, Zengchang Pang, Esther Rebato, Maria A Stazi, Corrado Fagnani, Sonia Brescianini, Andreas Busjahn, Jennifer R Harris, Ingunn Brandt, Thomas Sevenius Nilsen, Tessa L Cutler, John L Hopper, Robin P Corley, Brooke M Huibregtse, Joohon Sung, Jina Kim, Jooyeon Lee, Sooji Lee, Margaret Gatz, David A Butler, Carol E Franz, William S Kremen, Michael J Lyons, Patrik K E Magnusson, Nancy L Pedersen, Anna K Dahl Aslan, Sevgi Y Öncel, Fazil Aliev, Catherine A Derom, Robert F Vlietinck, Ruth J F Loos, Judy L Silberg, Hermine H Maes, Dorret I Boomsma, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Tellervo Korhonen, Jaakko Kaprio, Karri Silventoinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200140&type=printable
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