Shifting curves? Trends in thinness and obesity among Australian youth, 1985 to 2010

Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-100

  Hardy, L L ^a   Cosgrove, C ^b   King, L ^a   Venugopal, K ^a   Baur, L A ^a   Gill, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Obesity; Socioeconomic; Thinness; Trends

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; THINESS; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84863486902     PISSN: 20476310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2011.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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