Growth Reacceleration of School Children in the City of Sendai, Japan

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 301-309

  Nakatsuka, Haruo ^a,b   Satoh, Hiroshi ^b   Ikeda, Masayuki ^c  

^a MIYAGI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Growth; Height; Reacceleration; School children; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE;

EID: 0032041882     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.184.301     Document Type: Article

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