Cardiometabolic Risk Assessments by Body Mass Index z-Score or Waist-to-Height Ratio in a Multiethnic Sample of Sixth-Graders

Convention defines pediatric adiposity by the body mass index z-score (BMIz) referenced to normative growth charts. Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) does not depend on sex-and-age references. In the HEALTHY Study enrollment sample, we compared BMIz with WHtR for ability to identify adverse cardiometabol...

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Autores principales: Kahn, Henry S., El ghormli, Laure, Jago, Russell, Foster, Gary D., McMurray, Robert G., Buse, John B., Stadler, Diane D., Treviño, Roberto P., Baranowski, Tom, HEALTHY Study Group
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4123559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/421658

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4123559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/421658

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