Trends in growth status among schoolchildren in Sendai, Japan, 1994-2003: Leveling-off of mean body height and weight

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-375

  Kurokawa, Naoyuki ^a   Nakai, Kunihiko ^a   Suzuki, Keita ^a   Sakurai, Kozue ^a   Shimada, Miyuki ^a   Kameo, Satomi ^a   Nakatsuka, Haruo ^b   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Changes; Growth; Height; Schoolchildren; Weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FORECASTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59149092897     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.216.371     Document Type: Article

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