Is waist-to-height ratio a useful indicator of cardio-metabolic risk in 6-10-year-old children?

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a public health problem worldwide. Visceral obesity, particularly associated with cardio-metabolic risk, has been assessed by body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference, but both methods use sex-and age-specific percentile tables and are influenced by sexual matur...

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Autores principales: Kuba, Valesca Mansur, Leone, Claudio, Damiani, Durval
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/PMC3686671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23758779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-91

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23758779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-91

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