Assessment of growth

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 383-398

  James Cole, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body mass index; Growth; Growth reference; Growth standard; Height; Velocity; Waist circumference; Weight

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MONITORING; OBESITY; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTION; PUBERTY; RECORDING; REVIEW; SKINFOLD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VELOCITY; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT STATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 0036420831     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2002.0209     Document Type: Article

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