High Discrepancy in Abdominal Obesity Prevalence According to Different Waist Circumference Cut-Offs and Measurement Methods in Children: Need for Age-Risk-Weighted Standardized Cut-Offs?

BACKGROUND: Waist circumference (WC) is a good proxy measure of central adiposity. Due to the multiplicity of existing WC cut-offs and different measurement methods, the decision to use one rather than another WC chart may lead to different prevalence estimates of abdominal obesity in the same popul...

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Autores principales: Monzani, Alice, Rapa, Anna, Prodam, Flavia, Fuiano, Nicola, Diddi, Giuliana, Petri, Antonella, Bellone, Simonetta, Bona, Gianni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26745148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146579

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