Growth velocity curves and pubertal spurt parameters of Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study

Carla Santos; Alcibíades Bustamante; Peter T. Katzmarzyk; Olga Vasconcelos; Rui Garganta; Duarte Freitas; Duarte Freitas; Sedigheh Mirzaei‐Salehabadi; José Maia

doi:10.1002/ajhb.23301

Growth velocity curves and pubertal spurt parameters of Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study

Carla Santos, Alcibíades Bustamante, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Olga Vasconcelos, Rui Garganta, Duarte Freitas, Duarte Freitas, Sedigheh Mirzaei‐Salehabadi, José Maia

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Original language	American English
Journal	American Journal of Human Biology
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23301
State	Published - Nov 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Santos, C., Bustamante, A., Katzmarzyk, P. T., Vasconcelos, O., Garganta, R., Freitas, D., Freitas, D., Mirzaei‐Salehabadi, S., & Maia, J. (2019). Growth velocity curves and pubertal spurt parameters of Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23301

Growth velocity curves and pubertal spurt parameters of Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study. / Santos, Carla; Bustamante, Alcibíades; Katzmarzyk, Peter T. et al.
In: American Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 31, No. 6, 01.11.2019.

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Santos, C, Bustamante, A, Katzmarzyk, PT, Vasconcelos, O, Garganta, R, Freitas, D , Freitas, D, Mirzaei‐Salehabadi, S & Maia, J 2019, 'Growth velocity curves and pubertal spurt parameters of Peruvian children and adolescents living at different altitudes. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study', American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 31, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23301

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