Associations of television viewing time with excess body weight among urban and rural high-school students in regional mainland China

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 891-896

  Xu, Fei ^a,b   Li, Jiequan ^a   Ware, Robert S ^c   Owen, Neville ^c  

^a NANJING MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; China; High school students; Overweight; Physical activity; Television viewing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STUDENT; TELEVISION; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 48749088964     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007001280     Document Type: Article

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