Growth measures among preschool-age Inuit children living in Canada and Greenland

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 712-717

  Galloway, Tracey ^a   Niclasen, Birgit V l ^b   Muckle, Gina ^c   Young, Kue ^d   Egeland, Grace M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENLAND   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CDC; child; childhood; cutoffs; growth; Inuit; IOTF; obesity; reference standards; stature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GREENLAND; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREENLAND; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84870609566     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494812462495     Document Type: Article

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