Central adiposity in 9- and 15-year-old Swedish children from the European Youth Heart Study

International Journal of Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 212-216

  Ortega, Francisco B ^a,b   Ruiz, Jonatan R ^a,b   Vicente Rodríguez, German ^a,c   Sjöström, Michael ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Adiposity; Adolescents; Central; Children; Circumference; Fatness; Height; Ratio; Waist

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SWEDEN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; SWEDEN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 57049160957     PISSN: 17477166     EISSN: 17477174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17477160802068965     Document Type: Article

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