The growth of children in relation to the timing of obesity development

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2173-2176

  Papadimitriou, Anastasios ^a   Gousi, Theodora ^a   Giannouli, Olga ^a   Nicolaidou, Polyxeni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Childhood; Growth; Growth acceleration; Infancy; Infancy childhood puberty growth model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846289636     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.254     Document Type: Article

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