The height-, weight-, and BMI-for-age of Polish school-aged children and adolescents relative to international and local growth references

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kulaga, Zbigniew ^a   Litwin, Mieczysaw ^a   Tkaczyk, Marcin ^b   Rádyska, Agnieszka ^a   Barwicka, Katarzyna ^a   Grajda, Aneta ^a   Wider, Anna ^a   Gurzkowska, Beata ^a   Napieralska, Ewelina ^a   Pan, Huiqi ^c  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND;

ADOLESCENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77949531488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-109     Document Type: Article

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