Birth and early life influences on the timing of puberty onset: Results from the DONALD (DOrtmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed) study

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1559-1565

  Karaolis Danckert, Nadina ^a   Buyken, Anette E ^a   Sonntag, Antje ^a   Kroke, Anja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FULDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENARCHE; NEWBORN; PARENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL GROWTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TERM BIRTH; VELOCITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBERTY; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 72749113073     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28259     Document Type: Article

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