Utility of waist-to-height ratio in assessing the status of central obesity and related cardiometabolic risk profile among normal weight and overweight/obese children: The Bogalusa Heart Study

BACKGROUND: Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used to assess the impact of obesity on cardiometabolic risk in children but it does not always relate to central obesity and varies with growth and maturation. Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) is a relatively constant anthropometric index of abdominal obesity...

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Autores principales: Mokha, Jasmeet S, Srinivasan, Sathanur R, DasMahapatra, Pronabesh, Fernandez, Camilo, Chen, Wei, Xu, Jihua, Berenson, Gerald S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20937123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-73

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20937123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-73

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