Development of waist circumference percentiles for Japanese children and an examination of their screening utility for childhood metabolic syndrome: a population-based cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: In Japan, waist circumference (WC) percentiles to screen for childhood metabolic syndrome (MetS) are unavailable. The objectives of this study were to develop WC and WC-to-height ratio (WC/Ht) percentile curves by age and sex for Japanese children, and to test their utility in screening...

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Autores principales: Matsushita, Rie, Isojima, Tsuyoshi, Takaya, Ryuzo, Satake, Eiichiro, Yamaguchi, Rie, Kitsuda, Kazuteru, Nagata, Eiko, Sano, Shinichiro, Nakanishi, Toshiki, Nakagawa, Yuichi, Ohzeki, Takehiko, Ogata, Tsutomu, Fujisawa, Yasuko
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/PMC4644326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26566772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2447-1

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