TY  - JOUR
T1  - WEight and happiness
AU  - Kaplan KM
Y1  - 2001/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.155.4.525
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 525
EP  - 526
VL  - 155
IS  - 4
N2  - 
In their recent report on body mass index (BMI), depressive symptoms, and overweight concerns in a group of third-grade children in northern California, Erickson and colleagues1 were somewhat cautious in their conclusions but pointed to a "modest association between depressive symptoms and BMI" in girls. The authors base their conclusion on a correlation between BMI and depressive symptoms of 0.14—hardly a correlation at all. Furthermore, as the authors note, the direction of causality in cross-sectional studies is difficult to determine.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.155.4.525
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.155.4.525
ER  -