Associations of total and abdominal adiposity with risk marker patterns in children at high-risk for cardiovascular disease

BACKGROUND: While body mass index percentiles (BMI%) are commonly used to assess childhood cardiovascular risk, waist circumference percentiles (WC%) are not commonly used nor universally accepted. We tested whether BMI% or WC% should be used to identify risk factor patterns in children at high-risk...

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Autores principales: de Koning, Lawrence, Denhoff, Erica, Kellogg, Mark D, de Ferranti, Sarah D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-015-0043-7

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