Regional variations in the growth of Saudi children and adolescents

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-356

  El Mouzan, Mohammad ^a   Foster, Peter ^b   Al Herbish, Abdullah ^a   Al Salloum, Abdullaha ^a   Al Omer, Ahmad ^c   Alqurashi, Mansour ^c   Kecojevic, Tatjana ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Al Yamamah Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 70350605515     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.55163     Document Type: Article

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