BMI centile curves for Japanese children aged 517 years in 20002005

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1688-1692

  Sakamoto, Naoko ^a   Yang, Limin ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Child; Growth; Japan; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 75149175149     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008003832     Document Type: Article

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