Ruth Loos
Ruth Loos is a leading researcher at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in the genetic determinants of obesity. She has played a pivotal role in studies that utilize genetic scoring to predict obesity-related health complications. Loos's recent work focuses on the limitations of using early childhood weight as a risk predictor for adult obesity, advocating for the use of polygenic risk scores as a more reliable measure to assess future obesity risks in children.
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Ruth Loos, from the University of Copenhagen and one of the lead researchers of the new study, noted that the weight of children under 5 does not predict future obesity risk, but their polygenic risk scores do.
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