Editorial: Towards a simplified definition of childhood obesity? A focus on the extended IOTF references

Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-260

  Rolland Cachera, Marie Françoise ^a  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MORBID OBESITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCIENTIST; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STANDARD; UNDERWEIGHT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; NOTE; OBESITY;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; THINNESS;

EID: 84867325938     PISSN: 20476302     EISSN: 20476310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00077.x     Document Type: Editorial

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