Discusses the increase in the risk of school-aged children carrying excess body fat for
developing chronic disease. Concerns over the problem of childhood obesity; Calls for …

Many diseases and injuries can impair joint mobility. Normal reference values are needed to
determine extent of impairment to assess and monitor joint motion. There is very little …

Objective: To delineate a classification system, comprising reference curves and cutoff
points, based on the distribution of body mass index (BMI) across a national reference …

Objective. This study examines the causal direction of the relationship between weight
status and pubertal timing in girls using a longitudinal sample of 183 white girls followed …

The influence of perceptions of the motivational climate and perceived ability on situational
motivation and the physical activity behavior of 213 male and 229 female adolescent …

Background Recent studies have shown that puberty starts at younger ages than previously.
It has been hypothesized that the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity is contributing …

Since the development of consensus‐recommended indicators for pediatric malnutrition in
2014, screening and diagnosis of pediatric malnutrition have improved, but the indicators …

BACKGROUND: To examine the effect of in utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) on age at menarche in offspring, we …

OBJETIVO: Delinear sistema de classificação, composto de curva de referência e valores
críticos, baseado na distribuição do índice de massa corporal (IMC) em população de …

In a prospective longitudinal study, we examined whether the personality trait of self-control
protects against weight gain during the transition from childhood to adolescence. We …