HuSKY: A healthy nutrition score based on food intake of children and adolescents in Germany

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 610-618

  Kleiser, Christina ^a   Mensink, Gert B M ^a   Scheidt Nave, Christa ^a   Kurth, Bärbel Maria ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Diet quality; Germany

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY NUTRITION SCORE FOR KIDS AND YOUTH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION; AGE; BLOOD; EATING; ETHNOLOGY; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; HEALTH SURVEY; MIGRATION; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EATING; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOLIC ACID; GERMANY, EAST; GERMANY, WEST; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 70149104764     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509222689     Document Type: Article

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