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Percentile Curves for Anthropometric Measures for Canadian Children and Youth

Body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to assess a child's weight status but it does not provide information about the distribution of body fat. Since the disease risks associated with obesity are related to the amount and distribution of body fat, measures that assess visceral or subcutaneous...

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Autores principales: Kuhle, Stefan, Maguire, Bryan, Ata, Nicole, Hamilton, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4503699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26176769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132891