Body composition of preschool children and relation to birth weight

Objective: to evaluate the relationship between body composition of preschool children suffering from excess weight and birth weight (BW). Methods: probabilistic sample, by conglomerates, with 17 daycare centers (of a total of 59) composing a final sample of 479 children. We used Z-score of Bod...

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Main Authors: Thais Costa Machado, Viviane G. Nascimento, Janaína P. C. da Silva, Ciro João Bertoli, Claudio Leone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Médica Brasileira 2014-01-01
Series:Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-42302014000200139&lng=en&tlng=en