Childhood obesity among head start enrollees in Southeastern Minnesota: Prevalence and risk factors

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-28

  Hu, William T ^a   Foley, Thomas A ^a   Wilcox, Ryan A ^a   Kozera, Rochelle M ^b   Morgenstern, Bruce Z ^a,d   Juhn, Young J ^a,c  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Child Care Resource and Referral Head Start   (United States)

^c Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; English as a second language; Ethnicity; Hispanic; Mexican; Overweight; Somalian

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINNESOTA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 33846906759     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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