Waist-to-height ratio and its associations with body mass index in a sample of Tuscan children in primary school

BACKGROUND: Visceral obesity in children increases the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. To evaluate overweight children, in addition to Body Mass Index (BMI), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) can be used to predict cardiometabolic risk. The goal of this study is to describe WHtR in a sample o...

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Autores principales: Santomauro, Francesca, Lorini, Chiara, Pieralli, Francesca, Niccolai, Giuditta, Picciolli, Paola, Vezzosi, Stefania, Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5463347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28592270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-017-0372-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5463347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28592270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-017-0372-x

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