The mediating effect of parents' educational status on the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and childhood obesity: The PANACEA study

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 401-408

  Antonogeorgos, George ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Grigoropoulou, Dimitra ^a   Papadimitriou, Anastasios ^b   Anthracopoulos, Michael ^c   Nicolaidou, Polyxeni ^b   Priftis, Kostas N ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Mediation; Mediterranean diet; Obesity; Overweight; Parent education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; PARENT;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY;

EID: 84878682876     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-012-0424-3     Document Type: Article

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