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Does a Parsimonious Measure of Complex Body Mass Index Trajectories Exist?

BACKGROUND: A single measure that distills complex body mass index (BMI) trajectories into one value could facilitate otherwise complicated analyses. This study creates and assesses the validity of such a measure: average excess BMI. METHODS: We use data from Waves I-IV of the National Longitudinal...

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Autores principales: Sokol, Rebeccah L., Gottfredson, Nisha C., Poti, Jennifer M., Halpern, Carolyn T., Shanahan, Meghan E., Fisher, Edwin B., Ennett, Susan T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30206334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0194-y