Use of Body Mass Index and Percentage Overweight Cutoffs to Screen Japanese Children and Adolescents for Obesity-Related Risk Factors

BACKGROUND: Cutoffs based on percentage overweight (POW) are used for screening students in Japan; however, body mass index (BMI) is more common in the rest of the world. To screen for risk factors related to obesity among Japanese primary and secondary school students, we compared fasting and postp...

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Autores principales: Okuda, Masayuki, Sugiyama, Shinichi, Kunitsugu, Ichiro, Hinoda, Yuji, Okuda, Yumi, Shirabe, Komei, Yoshitake, Norikazu, Hobara, Tatsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2010
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19855138
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090036

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19855138
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090036

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