Overweight and obesity among affluent Bengalee schoolgirls of Lake Town, Kolkata, India

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-145

  Bose, Kaushik ^a   Bisai, Samiran ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Ashish ^a   Bhadra, Mithu ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bengalee; Girls; India; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33947154789     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2007.00085.x     Document Type: Review

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