The influence of intensive physical training on growth and pubertal development in athletes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1205, Issue , 2010, Pages 39-44

  Georgopoulos, Neoklis A ^a   Roupas, Nikolaos D ^a   Theodoropoulou, Anastasia ^a   Tsekouras, Athanasios ^a   Vagenakis, Apostolos G ^a   Markou, Kostas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

athletes; bone acquisition; growth; gymnasts; pubertal development; skeletal maturation

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; BODY GROWTH; BONE MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY BALANCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; SPORT; TRAINING; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ATHLETES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PUBERTY;

EID: 77957047685     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05677.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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