Dietary and other lifestyle characteristics of Cypriot school children: Results from the nationwide CYKIDS study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lazarou, Chrystalleni ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Kouta, Christiana ^b   Matalas, Antonia Leda ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; MEAT; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; SOCIAL STATUS; VEGETABLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYPRUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PARENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYPRUS; DIET; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67650723717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-147     Document Type: Article

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