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LMS tables for waist circumference and waist–height ratio in Colombian adults: analysis of nationwide data 2010

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Indices predictive of central obesity include waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). These data are lacking for Colombian adults. This study aims at establishing smoothed centile charts and LMS tables for WC and WHtR; appropriate cutoffs were selected using...

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Autores principales: Ramírez-Vélez, R, Correa-Bautista, J E, Martínez-Torres, J, Méneses-Echavez, J F, González-Ruiz, K, González-Jiménez, E, Schmidt-RioValle, J, Lobelo, F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27026425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2016.46