Secular trends of obesity prevalence in Chinese children from 1985 to 2010: Urban-rural disparity

Obesity

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 448-453

  Song, Yi ^a,b   Ma, Jun ^a   Wang, Hai Jun ^a,c   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Hu, Peijin ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Agard, Anette ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; TREND STUDY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; BODY MASS; CHINA; FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84922706169     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20938     Document Type: Article

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