Association between family divorce and children's BMI and meal patterns: The GENDAI study

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1382-1387

  Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Papanikolaou, Katerina ^b   Hatzopoulou, Ioanna ^a   Efstathiou, Eleftheria ^a   Papoutsakis, Constantina ^a   Dedoussis, George V ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIVORCE; FAMILY RELATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIVORCE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 44449168176     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.70     Document Type: Article

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