Cargando…

Arm Circumference-to-Height Ratio as a Situational Alternative to BMI Percentile in Assessing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether arm circumference-to-height ratio (AHtR) predicts adolescents' cardiometabolic risk and how its predictive statistics compare to those of body mass index (BMI) percentile. METHODS: Pooled data for adolescents (N = 12,269, 12–18 years) from the National Health and...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jayawardene, Wasantha, Dickinson, Stephanie, Lohrmann, David, Agley, Jon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6146674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7456461