The relationship between body composition and physical fitness in 14 year old adolescents residing within the Tlokwe local municipality, South Africa: The PAHL study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Monyeki, Makama Andries ^a   Neetens, Rik ^a,b   Moss, Sarah J ^a   Twisk, Jos ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body composition; Overweight; PAHL study; Physical fitness; Underweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CITY; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CITIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH AFRICA; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84861332603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-374     Document Type: Article

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