Overweight dynamics in Chinese children and adults

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 37-48

  Gordon Larsen, P ^a,b   Wang, H ^c   Popkin, B M ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

China; Gender; Obesity; Urbanicity

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

CHINA; GENDER; OBESITY; URBANICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84890772765     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/obr.12121     Document Type: Article

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