A cohort study of correlation between body mass index and age at menarche in healthy bengali girls

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 75-78

  Banerjee, I ^a,b   Chakraborty, S ^a   Ghia Bhattacharyya, N ^a,c   Bandyopadhyay, S ^a,d   Saiyed, H N ^a,e   Mukherjee, D ^a,f  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (India)

^d INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

^f Department of Paediatrics ^*

Author keywords

Bengali; Body mass index; Cohort study; Menarche

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INDIA; MENARCHE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; SCHOOL CHILD; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347256777     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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