Earlier menarcheal age in Spanish girls is related with an increase in body mass index between pre-pubertal school age and adolescence

Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 410-415

  Gavela Perez T ^a   Garces C ^a   Navarro Sanchez P ^a   Lopez Villanueva L ^a   Soriano Guillen L ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body mass index; menarcheal age; tracking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENARCHE; OBESITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SPANIARD; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENARCHE; OVERWEIGHT; PUBERTY; SCHOOLS; SELF REPORT; SPAIN;

EID: 84959525971     PISSN: 20476302     EISSN: 20476310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.277     Document Type: Article

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