Sociodemographic characteristics are associated with prevalence of high-risk waist circumference and high-risk waist-to-height ratio in U.S. adolescents

BACKGROUND: Adiposity status in adolescence is associated with various health outcomes in adulthood. Waist circumference [WC] and waist-to-height ratio [WHtR] are measures of abdominal obesity and have shown to be valid predictors of future chronic diseases. However, the relationship between sociode...

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Autores principales: Setiono, Felicia J., Guerra, Laura A., Leung, Cindy, Leak, Tashara M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8091763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33941130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02685-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8091763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33941130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02685-1

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