Height, weight and body mass index percentiles of children aged 6-14 years living at moderate altitudes

JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-20

  Malkoç, Ismail ^a   Mazicioǧlu, Mümtaz M ^b   Özkan, Behzat ^c   Kondolot, Meda ^b   Kurtoǧlu, Selim ^b   Yeşilyurt, Hakki ^d  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body mass index; Height; Mid altitude; Percentiles conflict of interest: none declared received: 08.12.2011 accepted: 14.01.2012; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84858433254     PISSN: 13085727     EISSN: 13085735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4274/jcrpe.559     Document Type: Article

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