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Smoothed Body Composition Percentiles Curves for Mexican Children Aged 6 to 12 Years

Overweight children and childhood obesity are a public health problem in Mexico. Obesity is traditionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), but an excess of adiposity does not necessarily reflect a high BMI. Thus, body composition indexes are a better alternative. Our objective was to generate b...

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Autores principales: Alpizar, Melchor, Peschard, Vanessa-Giselle, Escalante-Araiza, Fabiola, Altamirano-Bustamante, Nelly F., Murata, Chiharu, Arenas-Pérez, Ramón, Rodriguez-Ayala, Ernesto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261160
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4120112