A five-year trend of increasing obesity among elementary schoolchildren in multiethnic, low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in Montreal, Canada

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1176-1182

  O'loughlin, J ^a,b   Paradis, G ^a,b   Meshefedjian, G ^a   Gray Donald, K ^c  

^a Regie regionale de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal Centre   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child; Ethnicity; Low income; Obesity; Prevalence; Trend

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0033820964     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801362     Document Type: Article

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