25-year trends in gender disparity for obesity and overweight by using WHO and IOTF definitions among Chinese school-aged children: a multiple cross-sectional study

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Song, Yi ^a,b   Wang, Hai Jun ^a   Dong, Bin ^c   Ma, Jun ^a   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a,c   Agardh, Anette ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 85195265604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011904     Document Type: Article

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