To be an immigrant: A risk factor for developing overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence?

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 695-705

  Kirchengast, Sylvia ^a   Schober, Edith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); YUGOSLAVIA;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; TURKEY; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 33749065140     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932005027094     Document Type: Article

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