Racial/ethnic differences in body fatness among children and adolescents

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1105-1111

  Freedman, David S ^a   Wang, Jack ^b   Thornton, John C ^b   Mei, Zuguo ^a   Pierson Jr , Richard N ^b   Dietz, William H ^a   Horlick, Mary ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 42949148620     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.30     Document Type: Article

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