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Correlates of Participation in a Pediatric Primary Care–Based Obesity Prevention Intervention Elsie M. Taveras1,2, Katherine H. Hohman1, Sarah N. Price1, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman1, Kathleen Mitchell3, Steven L. Gortmaker4 and Matthew W. Gillman1,5 The purpose of this study was to examine the correlates of participation in a childhood obesity prevention trial. We sampled parents of children recruited to participate in a randomized controlled trial. Eligible children were 2.0–6.9 years with BMI ≥95th percentile or 85th to