No association between cognitive achievements, academic performance and serum cholesterol concentrations among school-aged children

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 160-166

  Perry, Lewis A ^a   Stigger, Cagney B ^a   Ainsworth, Barbara E ^b   Zhang, Jian ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Adolescents; Children; Cognitive achievements; Serum cholesterol

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKILL; THINKING; ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; BLOOD; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; READING;

EID: 70350445259     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423328     Document Type: Article

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