Allometric scaling of weight to height and resulting body mass index thresholds in two Asian populations

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) represents a normalization of weight to height and is used to classify adiposity. While the capacity of BMI as an adiposity index has been experimentally validated in Caucasians, but there has been little testing Asian populations. METHODS: To determine whether weig...

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Autores principales: Hood, Karoline, Ashcraft, Jacob, Watts, Krista, Hong, Sangmo, Choi, Woong, Heymsfield, Steven B., Gautam, Rajesh K., Thomas, Diana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30683839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41387-018-0068-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30683839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41387-018-0068-3

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