How active are our children? Findings from the millennium cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Griffiths, Lucy J ^a   Cortina Borja, Mario ^a   Sera, Francesco ^a   Pouliou, Theodora ^a   Geraci, Marco ^a   Rich, Carly ^a   Cole, Tim J ^a   Law, Catherine ^a   Joshi, Heather ^b   Ness, Andrew R ^c   Jebb, Susan A ^d   Dezateux, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PARENTHOOD; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84884568998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002893     Document Type: Article

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