Predictors of overweight and obesity in five to seven-year-old children in Germany: Results from cross-sectional studies

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Apfelbacher, Christian J ^a,b,c   Loerbroks, Adrian ^d   Cairns, John ^a   Behrendt, Heidrun ^e   Ring, Johannes ^e   Krämer, Ursula ^f  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 44949163820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-171     Document Type: Article

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