Sib-size, birth order and risk of overweight in junior high school students in Japan: Results of the Toyama Birth Cohort Study

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-51

  Wang, Hongbing ^a   Sekine, Michikazu ^a   Chen, Xiaoli ^a   Kanayama, Hitomi ^a   Yamagami, Takashi ^a   Kagamimori, Sadanobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth order; Children; Overweight; Sib size; The Toyama Birth Cohort study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; ONLY CHILD; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 33846151352     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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