Overweight and associated factors in children from northeasten Brazil

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-352

  Moreira, Marcella De Arruda ^a   Cabral, Poliana C ^a   Ferreira, Haroldo Da S ^b   De Lira, Pedro I C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Childhood; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84865961404     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.2203     Document Type: Article

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