Nutritional status and body composition of two South American native populations - Alto Xingu and Ikpeng

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 483-489

  Fagundes, Ulysses ^a   Kopelman, Benjamin ^a   Garcia Oliva, Carlos Alberto ^a   Baruzzi, Roberto Geraldo ^a   Fagundes Neto, Ulysses ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body composition; Child; South American natives

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAZIL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; IMPEDANCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 28744444563     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/1262     Document Type: Article

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