Socio-economic and dietary influences on leg length and trunk length in childhood: A reanalysis of the Carnegie (Boyd Orr) survey of diet and health in prewar Britain (1937-39)

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 96-113

  Gunnell, David J ^a,c   Smith, George Davey ^a   Frankel, Stephen J ^a   Kemp, Martin ^b   Peters, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c Canynge Hall ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRUNK; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031950529     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.0120s1096.x     Document Type: Article

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