Age at puberty and the emerging obesity epidemic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Aksglaede, Lise ^a   Juul, Anders ^a   Olsen, Lina W ^b   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PREPUBERTY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PUBERTY;

PROSPECT HILL VIRUS;

EID: 77954037402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008450     Document Type: Article

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