Anthropometric and cardiopulmonary parameters in Bulgarian and Romany children: Cross-sectional study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 294-301

  Mandadzhieva, Stoilka ^a   Marinov, Blagoi ^a   Kostianev, Stefan ^a   Turnovska, Tania ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG TRANSFER FACTOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VITAL CAPACITY;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ANTHROPOMETRY; BULGARIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; FEMALE; GYPSIES; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATION; ROMANIA; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 18844404354     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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