Triceps skinfold thickness centile charts in primary school children in Shiraz, Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 210-213

  Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi ^a   Mostajabi, Farida ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Primary school; Skinfold thickness

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; URBAN POPULATION;

ARM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 41149126668     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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