Height and weight of primary schoolchildren in Shiraz City, Southern Iran, 2002

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 838-840

  Ayatollahi, S M T ^a   Pourahmad, S ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 33750875796     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20550     Document Type: Article

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