Secular trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in sicilian schoolchildren aged 11-13 years during the last decade

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Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Parrino, Cristina ^a   Rossetti, Paola ^a   Baratta, Roberto ^a   La Spina, Nadia ^a   La Delfa, Lavinia ^a   Squatrito, Sebastiano ^a   Vigneri, Riccardo ^a   Frittitta, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SICILY; STUDENTS; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84859624527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034551     Document Type: Article

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