%0 Journal Article %T Association between parity and obesity patterns in a middle-aged and older Chinese population: a cross-sectional analysis in the Tongji-Dongfeng cohort study %A Bingqing Liu %A Hui Li %A Jing Yuan %A Lijun Shen %A Lulu Song %A Wending Li %A Yi Wang %A Youjie Wang %J Archive of "Nutrition & Metabolism". %D 2016 %R 10.1186/s12986-016-0133-7 %X Higher parity has been implicated as a risk factor for obesity of women. The objective of the study was to examine whether parity was associated with general obesity or abdominal obesity, or both, among middle-aged and older Chinese women %K General obesity %K Abdominal obesity %K Parity %K Childbirth %K Chinese %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081958/