Stunting and 'overweight' in the WHO Child Growth Standards -malnutrition among children in a poor area of China

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1991-1998

  Wang, Xiaoli ^a   Höjer, Bengt ^b   Guo, Sufang ^c   Luo, Shusheng ^a   Zhou, Wenyuan ^a   Wang, Yan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Overweight; Stunting; WHO growth standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHINA; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; REFERENCE VALUE; WASTING SYNDROME;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; REFERENCE VALUES; THINNESS; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 75149120335     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009990796     Document Type: Article

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