Maternal age of menarche and adiposity evidence from Hong Kong's "children of 1997" birth cohort

Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 433-437

  Lai, Tsz Chun ^a   Yeung, Shiu Lun Au ^a   Lin, Shi Lin ^a   Leung, Gabriel Matthew ^a   Mary Schooling, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BIRTHPLACE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHINA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; SEX; ADOLESCENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84955581851     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/eDe.0000000000000448     Document Type: Article

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