Underweight and overweight among children in Zahedan, south-east Iran

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1519-1521

  Maddah, Mohsen ^a   Shahraki, Touran ^b   Shahraki, Mansour ^b  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Maternal education; Overweight; Underweight; Zahedan, Iran

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MOTHER; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MOTHERS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 77957221512     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010000388     Document Type: Article

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