The secular trends in height and weight of Turkish school children during 1993-2003

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-447

  Simsek, Filiz ^a,b   Ulukol, B ^a   Gulnar, S Baskan ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Growth; School children; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TURKEY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 21044458579     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2005.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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