Correlation between fitness and fatness in 6-14-year old Serbian school children

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-60

  Ostojic, Sergej M ^a,b   Stojanovic, Marko D ^a   Stojanovic, Vladan ^b   Maric, Jelena ^b   Njaradi, Nenad ^a  

^a Metropolitan University   (Serbia)

^b City Center For Physical Culture   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Body fat; Cross sectional studies; Fitness; Girls; Obesity; Serbia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953126488     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/jhpn.v29i1.7566     Document Type: Article

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