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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...
Autores principales: | Okuda, Masayuki, Sugiyama, Shinichi, Kunitsugu, Ichiro, Hinoda, Yuji, Okuda, Yumi, Shirabe, Komei, Yoshitake, Norikazu, Hobara, Tatsuya |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Japan Epidemiological Association
2010
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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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