Incidence and remission rates of overweight among children aged 5 to 13 years in a district-wide school surveillance system

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1588-1594

  Kim, Juhee ^a,b   Must, Aviva ^c   Fitzmaurice, Garrett M ^a,d   Gillman, Matthew W ^a,e   Chomitz, Virginia ^b   Kramer, Ellen ^f   McGowan, Robert ^g   Peterson, Karen E ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Institute for Community Health   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Cambridge Dept of Public Works   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; REMISSION; SCHOOL;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 24144498022     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.054015     Document Type: Article

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