Body mass index of Kuwaiti children aged 3-9 years: Reference percentiles and curves

Journal of The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Al Isa, Abdulwahab Naser ^a   Thalib, Lukman ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Children; Kuwait; Percentiles

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PLOTS AND CURVES; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 33644846888     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466424006061176     Document Type: Article

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