Indicators of overweight and cardiovascular disease risk factors among 11- to 17-year-old boys and girls in Germany

Obesity Facts

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 379-385

  Kleiser, Christina ^a,b   Schienkiewitz, Anja ^b   Schaffrath Rosario, Angelika ^b   Prinz Langenohl, Reinhild ^c   Scheidt Nave, Christa ^b   Mensink, Gert B M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Blood pressure; C reactive protein; Cholesterol; Epidemiology; KiGGS; Overweight

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 82955193222     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333428     Document Type: Article

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