Is obesity associated with emotional and behavioural problems in children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

Lucy Griffi ths was initially supported by a MRC Special Training Fellowship in Health Services and Health of the Public Research (grant G1061221) and then by the Wellcome Trust (grant 084686/Z/08/A). The Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics is supported in part by the Medical Research Council in its capacity as the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health. Research at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children receives a proportion of the funding from the Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres funding scheme. The Millennium Cohort Study is funded by grants to Professor Health Joshi, Director of the study, from the Economic and Social Obesity and emotional/behavioural problems e431 Research Council and a consortium of government funders