Moderate agreement between body mass index and measures of waist circumference in the identification of overweight among 5-year-old children; the ‘Be active, eat right’ study

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) is a common indirect method to assess weight status among children. There is evidence that BMI data alone can underestimate overweight-related health risk and that waist circumference (WC) should also be measured. In this study we investigated the agreement between...

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Autores principales: Veldhuis, Lydian, Vogel, Ineke, Jansen, Wilma, Renders, Carry M, HiraSing, Remy A, Raat, Hein
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/PMC3679730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23617233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-63

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23617233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-63

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