Secular trends in menarcheal age in india-evidence from the Indian Human Development Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Pathak, Praveen Kumar ^a,b   Tripathi, Niharika ^b   Subramanian, S V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INDIA; MENARCHE; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LINEAR MODELS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84934324760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111027     Document Type: Article

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