Parental overweight as an indicator of childhood overweight: How sensitive?

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 196-200

  Lee, Kayoung ^a   Kwon, Eun Ryoung ^a   Park, Tae Jin ^a   Park, Min Seon ^b   Lenders, Carine M ^c  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Children; Korea; Overweight; Parent; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; PARENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; PARENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745503228     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: 09647058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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