High body mass index is not associated with atopy in schoolchildren living in rural and urban areas of Ghana

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Larbi, Irene A ^a,b   Klipstein Grobusch, Kerstin ^a,c   Amoah, Abena S ^b   Obeng, Benedicta B ^d   Wilson, Michael D ^b   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^d   Boakye, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79958285523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-469     Document Type: Article

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