Socioeconomic patterns of overweight, obesity but not thinness persist from childhood to adolescence in a 6 -year longitudinal cohort of Australian schoolchildren from 2007 to 2012

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  O'Dea, Jennifer A ^a   Chiang, Hueiwen ^a   Peralta, Louisa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Longitudinal; Obesity; Overweight; Social determinants; Social disadvantage; Socio economic status; Weight; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 84898029262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-222     Document Type: Article

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