Infant motor development predicts sports participation at age 14 years: Northern Finland Birth Cohort of 1966

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Ridgway, Charlotte L ^a   Ong, Ken K ^a   Tammelin, Tuija H ^b   Sharp, Stephen ^a   Ekelund, Ulf ^a   Jarvelin, Marjo Riitta ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF METABOLIC SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SPORT; STANDING; WALKING AID; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFANT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPORTS; WALKING;

EID: 69949167179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006837     Document Type: Article

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