Obesity measured as percent body fat, relationship with body mass index, and percentile curves for Mexican pediatric population

In Mexico, the increase in childhood obesity is alarming. Thus, improving the precision of its diagnosis is expected to impact on disease prevention. We estimated obesity prevalence by bioimpedance–based percent body fat (%BF) and body mass index (BMI) in 1061 girls and 1121 boys, from 3 to 17 years...

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Autores principales: Costa-Urrutia, Paula, Vizuet-Gámez, Alejandra, Ramirez-Alcántara, Miryam, Guillen-González, Miguel Ángel, Medina-Contreras, Oscar, Valdes-Moreno, Mariana, Musalem-Younes, Claudette, Solares-Tlapechco, Jaqueline, Granados, Julio, Franco-Trecu, Valentina, Rodriguez-Arellano, M. Eunice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30802270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212792

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