Assessment of individual changes in body fatness in boys during early pubertal period

Pediatrics International

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 495-497

  Okada, Tomoo ^a,b   Kuromori, Yuki ^a   Miyashita, Michio ^a   Yoshino, Yayoi ^a   Iwata, Fujihiko ^a   Hara, Mitsuhiko ^a   Harada, Kensuke ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body composition; Body mass index; Childhood obesity; Longitudinal study; Percentage of overweight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 29144512733     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200x.2005.02125.x     Document Type: Article

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