Comparison of Anthropometric Measures of Obesity in Childhood Allergic Asthma: Central Obesity is Most Relevant

BACKGROUND: Established indicators of central obesity include waist circumference, waist to height ratio and the conicity index. Studies utilizing such measures (as opposed to body mass index (BMI) percentiles) to characterize the association between obesity and asthma are lacking despite the fact t...

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Hauptverfasser: Musaad, Salma M.A., Patterson, Tia, Ericksen, Mark, Lindsey, Mark, Dietrich, Kim, Succop, Paul, Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2009
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771544/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19439348
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2009.03.023
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