Historical trends in height, weight, and body mass: Data from U.S. Major League Baseball players, 1869-1983

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 482-488

  Saint Onge, Jarron M ^a   Krueger, Patrick M ^b   Rogers, Richard G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Body mass index (BMI); Height; Weight

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN; OBESITY; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

BASEBALL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55649102536     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2008.06.008     Document Type: Article

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