Recent trends of body mass index distribution among school children in Sendai, Japan: Decrease of the prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2003-2009

Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kurokawa, Naoyuki ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Children; Distribution; Prevalence; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 79151469013     PISSN: 1871403X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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