Racial differences in central adiposity in a longitudinal cohort of black and white adolescent females

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tybor, David J ^a   Lichtenstein, Alice H ^b   Dallal, Gerard E ^b   Daniels, Stephen R ^c   Must, Aviva ^d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MENARCHE; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 76949104955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-10-2     Document Type: Article

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