Growth reference centiles and secular changes in Turkish children and adolescents

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 280-301

  Özer, Başak Koca ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Growth centiles; LMS method; Secular change; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONS; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34249950164     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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