Relationship of body mass index to percent body fat and waist circumference among schoolchildren in Japan - The influence of gender and obesity: A population-based cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ochiai, Hirotaka ^a   Shirasawa, Takako ^a   Nishimura, Rimei ^b   Morimoto, Aya ^b   Shimada, Naoki ^a   Ohtsu, Tadahiro ^a   Kujirai, Emiko ^a   Hoshino, Hiromi ^a   Tajima, Naoko ^b   Kokaze, Akatsuki ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 77955625806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-493     Document Type: Article

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