Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Chinese Children

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 882-886

  Liu, Jian Meng ^a   Ye, Rongwei ^a   Li, Song ^b   Ren, Aiguo ^a   Li, Zhiwen ^a   Liu, Yinghui ^a   Li, Zhu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Cross sectional survey; Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA;

AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34848839923     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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