Childhood obesity: Are we all speaking the same language?

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Flegal, Katherine M ^a   Ogden, Cynthia L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HUMANS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84862318513     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.111.000307     Document Type: Article

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