Relationship between change in BMI with age and delayed menarche in female athletes

Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-104

  Fujii, Katsunori ^a   Demura, Shinichi ^b  

^a AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BMI; Change in BMI; Delayed menarche; Maximum peak velocity (MPV); Wavelet interpolation method (WIM)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENARCHE; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPORT; STRESS; TRAINING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FITNESS; JAPAN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PUBERTY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENARCHE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPORTS;

EID: 0038721082     PISSN: 13453475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.22.97     Document Type: Article

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