Even transient rapid infancy weight gain is associated with higher BMI in young adults and earlier menarche.

Girls age 1 year showed a trend towards higher weight SDS than boys (p=0.06; Table 1 , Figure 1A ) whilst height SDS (p=0.8; Table 1 , Figure 1B ) and BMI SDS (p=0.1; Table 1 , Figure 1C ) were similar.

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