Timing based clustering of childhood BMI trajectories reveals differential maturational patterns; Study in the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts 1966 and 1986

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This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (874739 LongITools and 733206 LifeCycle) and the Research Council of Finland (Profi6 AF 336449 and AF 356888). This paper describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opin- ions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government. This work was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Sandia National Laboratories; a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. Open Access funding provided by University of Oulu (including Oulu University Hospital).

NFBC data are available from the University of Oulu, Infrastructure for Population Studies. Permission to use the data can be applied for research purposes via an electronic material request portal. In the use of data, we follow the EU general data protection regulation (679/2016) and the Finnish Data Protection Act. Please, contact the NFBC project center (NFBCprojectcenter(at)oulu.fi) and visit the cohort website (www.oulu.fi/nfbc) for more information.