Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood obesity prevalence in Greece: The GRECO (Greek Childhood Obesity) study

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 240-247

  Farajian, Paul ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^b   Risvas, Grigoris ^a   Karasouli, Konstantina ^a   Bountziouka, Vasiliki ^b   Voutzourakis, Nikolaos ^a   Zampelas, Antonis ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Obesity; Parents; Sociodemographics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PARENT; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONS; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872158853     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012002625     Document Type: Article

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