Anthropometry of 5-19-year-old Tongan children with special interest in the high prevalence of obesity among adolescent girls

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 714-723

  Fukuyama, Shoko ^a   Inaoka, Tsukasa ^b   Matsumura, Yasuhiro ^c   Yamauchi, Taro ^a   Natsuhara, Kazumi ^d   Kimura, Ryosuke ^a   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Faculty of Nursing   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescent; BMI; Child; Obesity; Sex difference; Tonga

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AGE STRUCTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHILD HEALTH; FAT RESERVE; JUVENILE; OBESITY; SURVEY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TONGA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TONGA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33644872319     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014460500273275     Document Type: Article

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