ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: JAMA Pediatr 2018;172:239-246Social contagion refers to the spreading of a behaviour, idea, attitude, or even an emotion, across a social group due to imitation and conformity by its members. The idea that obesity may spread due to social contagion is based on its observed clustering across networks of individuals, who are joined by ot...