Impact of mother tongue and gender on overweight, obesity and extreme obesity in 24,989 Viennese children/adolescents (2-16 years)

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 124, Issue 21-22, 2012, Pages 782-788

  Segna, Daniel ^a   Widhalm, Harald ^a   Pandey, Maitrayee P ^a   Zehetmayer, Sonja ^a   Dietrich, Sabine ^b   Widhalm, Kurt ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Psychosomatisches Zentrum Waldviertel Eggenburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Extreme obesity; Mother tongue; Overweight; Vienna

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AUSTRIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUSTRIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84876472709     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: 16137671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-012-0277-z     Document Type: Review

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