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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...
Autores principales: | Hood, Karoline, Ashcraft, Jacob, Watts, Krista, Hong, Sangmo, Choi, Woong, Heymsfield, Steven B., Gautam, Rajesh K., Thomas, Diana |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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