Reassessing Ethnic Differences in Mean BMI and Changes Between 2007 and 2013 in English Children

Obesity

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 412-419

  Hudda, Mohammed T ^a   Nightingale, Claire M ^a   Donin, Angela S ^a   Owen, Christopher G ^a   Rudnicka, Alicja R ^a   Wells, Jonathan C K ^b   Rutter, Harry ^c   Cook, Derek G ^a   Whincup, Peter H ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; ENGLISHMAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GIRL; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH ASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; HISTORY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 85040835112     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.22091     Document Type: Article

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