Stabilisation of the prevalence of childhood obesity in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 140, Issue JULY, 2010, Pages

  Aeberli, Isabelle ^a,b   Henschen, Isabelle ^a   Molinari, Luciano ^c   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Obesity; Overweight; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SWITZERLAND; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84855961787     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2010.13046     Document Type: Article

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