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Assessing Factors Related to Waist Circumference and Obesity: Application of a Latent Variable Model

Background. Because the use of BMI (Body Mass Index) alone as a measure of adiposity has been criticized, in the present study our aim was to fit a latent variable model to simultaneously examine the factors that affect waist circumference (continuous outcome) and obesity (binary outcome) among Iran...

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Autores principales: Dalvand, Sahar, Koohpayehzadeh, Jalil, Karimlou, Masoud, Asgari, Fereshteh, Rafei, Ali, Seifi, Behjat, Niksima, Seyed Hassan, Bakhshi, Enayatollah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26770218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/893198