Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents

BACKGROUND: Indices predictive of adolescent central obesity include waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). Such reference data are lacking for Greek adolescents. The aim of this study was to develop age- and gender-specific WC, WHR and WHtR smoothed ref...

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Autores principales: Bacopoulou, Flora, Efthymiou, Vasiliki, Landis, Georgios, Rentoumis, Anastasios, Chrousos, George P
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/PMC4446827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25935716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0366-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25935716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0366-z

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