Tailoring Body Mass Index for Prediction of Obesity in Young Adults: A Multi-Centric Study on MBBS Students of Southeast India

Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) has been used for a long period as a surrogative measure for obesity. But BMI does not differentiate between fat and nonfat tissue (blood, bone, and muscle) due to which it is not considered accurate anymore. But since BMI is easier to estimate and used widely for...

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Autores principales: Behera, Swikruti, Mishra, Alpana, Esther, Angeleena, Sahoo, Ayaskant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Preventive Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33575144
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12579

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33575144
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12579

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