Concordance of obesity classification between body mass index and percent body fat among school children in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: In Saudi Arabia, where childhood obesity is a major public health issue, it is important to identify the best tool for obesity classification. Hence, we compared two field methods for their usefulness in epidemiological studies. METHODS: The sample consisted of 874 primary school (grade...

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Autores principales: Al-Mohaimeed, Abdulrahman, Ahmed, Saifuddin, Dandash, Khadiga, Ismail, Mohammed Saleh, Saquib, Nazmus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4355549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0335-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4355549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0335-6

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