Secular trend in body height of schoolchildren in Northeast Attica, Greece

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-17

  Papadimitriou, Anastasios ^a   Konstantinidou, M ^a   Christopanou, H ^a   Xepapadaki, P ^a   Giannouli, O ^a   Nicolaidou, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Height; Migrant children; School children; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 61849158117     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2009.22.1.13     Document Type: Article

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