The association of psychosomatic health with physical status and lifestyle factors in adolescence.

The main purposes were to analyse the age pattern of experiencing psycho-somatic complaints in children; to study the influence of physical status and lifestyle factors on psycho-somatic status. The sample (n: 13,331, aged 7-18) represented a subsample of the 2 Hungarian National Representative Growth Study. Subjects were divided into underweight, normal, preobese and obese subgroups.