Diet quality in European pre-schoolers: Evaluation based on diet quality indices and association with gender, socio-economic status and overweight, the ToyBox-study

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 2441-2450

  Pinket, An Sofie ^a   De Craemer, Marieke ^a   Huybrechts, Inge ^b   De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse ^a   Deforche, Benedicte ^a,c   Cardon, Greet ^a   Androutsos, Odysseas ^d   Koletzko, Berthold ^e   Moreno, Luis ^f   Socha, Piotr ^g   Iotova, Violeta ^h   Manios, Yannis ^d   Van Lippevelde, Wendy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^g CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Diet quality; Diet Quality Index; Overweight; Pre schoolers; Socio economic status; ToyBox study

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; BULGARIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; SPAIN;

BELGIUM; BULGARIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; POLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; SPAIN;

EID: 84964335025     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980016000604     Document Type: Article

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