Percentage body fat in apparently healthy school children from northern India

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 859-866

  Khadgawat, R ^a   Marwaha, R K ^b   Tandon, N ^a   Mehan, N ^c   Upadhyay, A D ^a   Sastry, A ^b   Bhadra, K ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^c Department of Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Assessment values; India; Obesity; Percentage body fat; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; NORTHERN INDIA; OBESITY; PERCENTAGE BODY FAT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; STUDENTS;

EID: 84885920477     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-013-0237-3     Document Type: Article

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