Trends in Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Danish Infants, Children and Adolescents - Are We Still on a Plateau?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt Morgen, Camilla ^a   Rokholm, Benjamin ^b   Sjöberg Brixval, Carina ^a   Schou Andersen, Camilla ^b   Geisler Andersen, Lise ^b   Rasmussen, Mette ^a   Nybo Andersen, Anne Marie ^c   Due, Pernille ^a   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DATA BASE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84880779631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069860     Document Type: Article

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