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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...
Autores principales: | Kuba, Valesca Mansur, Leone, Claudio, Damiani, Durval |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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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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