Healthy growth: Project description and baseline findings

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 567-577

  Taylor, Wendell C ^a   Chan, Wenyaw ^b   Cummings, Sharon S ^a   Simons Morton, Bruce G ^c   Day, R Sue ^b   Sangi Haghpeykar, Haleh ^d   Pivarnik, James S ^f   Mueller, William H ^b   Detry, Michelle A ^a   Wei, iris I ^e   Johnson Masoti, Ana P ^g   Hsu, Hai An ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Adolescence; African American; Anthropometry; Blood pressure; Body mass index; Diet; Female; Health behavior; Physical activity; Physical fitness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATURATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENARCHE; NEGRO; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0036763368     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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