Eleven-year prevalence trends of obesity in greek children: First evidence that prevalence of obesity is leveling off

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 161-166

  Tambalis, Konstantinos D ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Kavouras, Stavros A ^a   Kallistratos, Achilles A ^b   Moraiti, Ioanna P ^b   Douvis, Stavros J ^b,c   Toutouzas, Pavlos K ^d,e   Sidossis, Labros S ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Culture Greece   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Hellenic Heart Foundation   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 73949088565     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.188     Document Type: Article

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