Performance of different adiposity measures for predicting cardiovascular risk in adolescents

This study aims to compare the performance of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) to predict the presence of at least 3 main CV risk factors in US adolescents. A total of 3621 adolescents (boys: 49.9%) aged 12–17 years from the US National Health and Nut...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Min, Bovet, Pascal, Ma, Chuanwei, Xi, Bo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28262726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43686

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28262726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43686

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