Obesity nutritional aspects and life style from a survey on a sample of primary school pupils in the Pavia province (Northern Italy)

Italian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-17

  Arpesella, Marisa ^a   Campostrini, Stefano ^b   Gerzeli, Simone ^a   Lottaroli, Stefano ^d   Pane, Adelina ^a   Traverso, Maria Alessandra ^a   Vandoni, Matteo ^a   Coppola, Liliana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c Azienda Sanitaria Locale of Pavia   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Life styles; Obesity; Overweight; Risk and preventive factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449086255     PISSN: 17237815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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