Relationship between adiposity and cognitive performance in 9-10-year-old children in South India

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 126-134

  Veena, Sargoor R ^a   Hegde, Bhavya G ^a   Ramachandraiah, Somashekara ^a   Krishnaveni, Ghattu V ^a   Fall, Caroline H D ^b   Srinivasan, Krishnamachari ^c  

^a Holdsworth Memorial Hospital   (India)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEARNING; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADIPOSITY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84892794487     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304478     Document Type: Article

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