Early childhood predictors of adult body composition

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-502

  Druet, Céline ^a   Ong, Ken K ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

birth weight; body composition; growth; obesity

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREDICTION; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHORT STATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; OBESITY;

EID: 44449172603     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.02.002     Document Type: Review

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