Obesity amongst affluent adolescent girls

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 619-622

  Mehta, M ^a,b   Bhasin, S K ^a   Agrawal, K ^a   Dwivedi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b DDA Flats   (India)

Author keywords

Obesity; Schoolgirls

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34548608206     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-007-0109-8     Document Type: Article

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