Childhood overweight and family income

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Freedman, David S ^a   Ogden, Cynthia L ^b   Flegal, Katherine M ^b   Khan, Laura Kettel ^a   Serdula, Mary K ^a   Dietz, William H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OBESITY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TIME; UNITED STATES; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248136950     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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