Do overweight children necessarily make overweight adults? Repeated cross sectional annual nationwide survey of Japanese girls and women over nearly six decades

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7668, 2008, Pages 500-502

  Funatogawa, Ikuko ^a   Funatogawa, Takashi ^b   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; THINNESS;

EID: 51249123547     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a802     Document Type: Article

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