Obesity in Switzerland: Percentiles of body mass index of a cohort of children and adolescents born in 1980 in Lausanne and differences with the Swiss percentiles calculated for boys and girls in 1955;Obésité en Suisse: Percentiles d'indice de masse corporelle (IMC) d'une population d'enfants et d'adolescents nés en 1980 à Lausanne et écart avec les normes suisses (1955)

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-132

  Woringer, Virgile ^a   Schütz, Yves ^b  

^a Direction des Ecoles   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Body mass index; Childhood; Longitudinal; Percentiles; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0038118414     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-003-0103-5     Document Type: Article

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