Energy balance, body composition, and puberty in children and adolescents: Importance of ethnicity

Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-22

  Gower, Barbara A ^a   Higgins, Paul B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOLYSIS; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0142176758     PISSN: 10683097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00060793-200302000-00003     Document Type: Review

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