The trend of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in relation to physical exercise;Il trend del sovrappeso e dell'obesità nei bambini e adolescenti in rapporto all'attività sportiva

Medicina dello Sport

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-372

  Gelonesi, F ^a,b   Catalano, G ^a   Monea, P ^a   Flachi, A ^a   Attina G ^a   Piromalli, S ^a   Roberto, D ^a   Attina D ^a  

^a ASL 11   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Obesity; Overweight; Sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249100124     PISSN: 00257826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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