Use of Body Mass Index and Percentage Overweight Cutoffs to Screen Japanese Children and Adolescents for Obesity-Related Risk Factors

BACKGROUND: Cutoffs based on percentage overweight (POW) are used for screening students in Japan; however, body mass index (BMI) is more common in the rest of the world. To screen for risk factors related to obesity among Japanese primary and secondary school students, we compared fasting and postp...

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Main Authors: Okuda, Masayuki, Sugiyama, Shinichi, Kunitsugu, Ichiro, Hinoda, Yuji, Okuda, Yumi, Shirabe, Komei, Yoshitake, Norikazu, Hobara, Tatsuya
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Japan Epidemiological Association 2010
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900779/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19855138
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090036
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