Anthropometric indices of school children and familiar risk factors

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 492-498

  Giampietro, Ottavio ^a   Virgone, Eleonora ^b   Carneglia, Luca ^b   Griesi, Elena ^a   Calvi, Debora ^a   Matteucci, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b USL 5   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Family; Primary school children

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TELEVISION;

EID: 0036434454     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.2002.1098     Document Type: Article

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