Body mass index and age at menarche in peruvian children living at high altitude and at sea level

Human Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 265-275

  Gonzales, Gustavo F ^a,b   Villena, Arturo ^a,b  

^a Inst de Invest de la Altura

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Age at menarche; Body mass index; High altitude

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HUMAN; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STUDIES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; LATIN AMERICA; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; STUDIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; PERU; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030115262     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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