Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio percentiles and central obesity among Pakistani children aged five to twelve years

BACKGROUND: Central obesity has been associated with the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in children and anthropometric indices predictive of central obesity include waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-height ratio (WHtR). South Asian children have higher body fat...

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Autores principales: Mushtaq, Muhammad Umair, Gull, Sibgha, Abdullah, Hussain Muhammad, Shahid, Ubeera, Shad, Mushtaq Ahmad, Akram, Javed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22104025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-105

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22104025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-105

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