Secular Trends of Obesity Prevalence in Urban Chinese Children from 1985 to 2010: Gender Disparity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Song, Yi ^a   Wang, Hai Jun ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHINESE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84872192548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053069     Document Type: Article

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