Overweight and obesity in 6-12 year old children in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 134, Issue 35-36, 2004, Pages 523-528

  Zimmermann, Michael B ^a   Gübeli, Carolyn ^a   Püntener, Claudia ^a   Molinari, Luciano ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body mass index; Children; Obesity; Overweight; Percentage body fat; Skinfold thickness; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 6344254297     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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