Is central obesity associated with poorer health and health-related quality of life in primary school children? Cross-sectional results from the Baden-Württemberg Study

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity and its consequences are a growing threat to national economies and health services. The aim of this study was to determine associations between waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as a measure of central obesity, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and absenteeism of p...

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Autores principales: Kesztyüs, Dorothea, Wirt, Tamara, Kobel, Susanne, Schreiber, Anja, Kettner, Sarah, Dreyhaupt, Jens, Kilian, Reinhold, Steinacker, Jürgen M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23521780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-260

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