Who benefits from intervention in, as opposed to screening of, overweight and obese children?

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 474-480

  Graf, Christine ^a   Koch, Benjamin ^a   Bjarnason Wehrens, Birna ^a   Sreeram, Narayanswami ^b   Brockmeier, Konrad ^b   Tokarski, Walter ^a   Dordel, Sigrid ^a   Predel, Hans Georg ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Family based; School based prevention; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUTRITION EDUCATION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; EXERCISE THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750152593     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951106000667     Document Type: Article

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