Patterns of childhood body mass index (BMI), overweight and obesity in South Asian and black participants in the English National child measurement programme: effect of applying BMI adjustments standardising for ethnic differences in BMI-body fatness associations

BACKGROUND: The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) records weight and height and assesses overweight-obesity patterns in English children using body mass index (BMI), which tends to underestimate body fatness in South Asian children and overestimate body fatness in Black children of presume...

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Autores principales: Hudda, M T, Nightingale, C M, Donin, A S, Owen, C G, Rudnicka, A R, Wells, J C K, Rutter, H, Cook, D G, Whincup, P H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2018
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Pediatric Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.272

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5815501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.272

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