Prevalence and trends in overweight among US children and adolescents, 1999-2000

Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 288, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1728-1732

  Ogden, Cynthia L ^a   Flegal, Katherine M ^a   Carroll, Margaret D ^a   Johnson, Clifford L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037048695     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.288.14.1728     Document Type: Article

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