Gender Difference in Body Fat for Healthy Chinese Children and Adolescents

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 144-154

  Guo, Bin ^a   Wu, Qiulian ^b   Gong, Jian ^a   Xiao, Zeyu ^a   Tang, Yongjin ^a   Shang, Jingjie ^a   Cheng, Yong ^a   Xu, Hao ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY FAT; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GIRL; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRUNK; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX RATIO;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84962238888     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2015.0139     Document Type: Article

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