Overweight and obesity in Irish primary schools: retrospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND: This retrospective cohort study investigates the feasibility of using established methods and routinely generated data from the statutory primary school health-screening programme to estimate prevalence rates for childhood overweight and obesity in children from a rural area in the Repub...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 499 - 507 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2005
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