Are height and leg length universal markers of childhood conditions? The Guangzhou Biobank cohort study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 607-614

  Schooling, C M ^a   Jiang, C Q ^b   Heys, M ^a   Zhang, W S ^b   Adab, Peymane ^c   Cheng, K K ^c   Lam, T H ^a   Leung, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Guangzhou Number 12 Hospital   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HEIGHT; LITERACY; MORPHOMETRY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHINESE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; SITTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 46949094025     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.065003     Document Type: Article

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