Is BMI alone a sufficient outcome to evaluate interventions for child obesity?

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 350-356

  Kolotourou, Maria ^a   Radley, Duncan ^a   Chadwick, Paul ^a   Smith, Lindsey ^a   Orfanos, Stavros ^a   Kapetanakis, Venediktos ^b   Singhal, Atul ^c   Cole, Tim J ^c   Sacher, Paul M ^a,c  

^a Mytime MEND   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SELF CONCEPT; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SELF CONCEPT; TIME FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84881098016     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2013.0019     Document Type: Article

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