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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...
Autores principales: | Jayawardene, Wasantha, Dickinson, Stephanie, Lohrmann, David, Agley, Jon |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi
2018
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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 |
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