Height for age increased while body mass index for age remained stable between 1968 and 2007 among guatemalan children

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 365-369

  Stein, Aryeh D ^a   Wang, Meng ^a   DiGirolamo, Ann ^a   Hoddinott, John ^c   Martorell, Reynaldo ^a   Ramirez Zea, Manuel ^d   Yount, Kathryn ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama Guatemala   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 60249091216     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.098343     Document Type: Article

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