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Body composition data show that high BMI centiles overdiagnose obesity in children aged under 6 years
BACKGROUND: Most authorities define childhood overweight/obesity as a BMI exceeding the same high centile cutoff at all ages, but it seems unlikely that true obesity prevalence (excess body fat) is constant throughout childhood. OBJECTIVES: We investigated how fat mass (FM) and lean mass (LM), adjus...
Autores principales: | Wright, Charlotte M, Cole, Tim J, Fewtrell, Mary, Williams, Jane E, Eaton, Simon, Wells, Jonathan C |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9257461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34967839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab421 |
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