Correction to: International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, 22 December 2009; doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.237

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have noticed that one of the authors has been omitted:

Professor Tim J Cole

MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London

The full list of authors is:

RM Viner, TJ Cole, T Fry, S Gupta, S Kinra, D McCarthy, S Saxena, S Taylor, JCK Wells, P Whincup and MJS Zaman

The typesetters apologize for the mistake.