Measures of body mass and of obesity from infancy to adulthood and their appropriate transformation

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 111-125

  Gasser, T ^a   Ziegler, P ^b   Seifert, B ^a   Prader, A ^c   Molinari, L ^c   Largo, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBESITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0028395253     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014469400003152     Document Type: Article

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