Prevalence of obesity, binge eating, and night eating in a cross-sectional field survey of 6-year-old children and their parents in a German urban population

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 385-393

  Lamerz, Andreas ^a   Kuepper Nybelen, Jutta ^b   Bruning, Nicole ^a   Wehle, Christine ^a   Trost Brinkhues, Gabriele ^c   Brenner, Hermann ^b   Hebebrand, Johannes ^d   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Public Health Service   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binge eating; Cross sectional survey; Night eating; Obesity; Six year old children

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING HABIT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BULIMIA; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 16244371798     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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