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Scaling of adult body weight to height across sex and race/ethnic groups: relevance to BMI(1)(2)(3)(4)

Background: Body mass index (BMI) is formulated on the assumption that body weight (BW) scales to height with a power of 2 (BW∝height(2)), independent of sex and race-ethnicity. Powers differing from 2 are observed in studies of selected samples, thus raising the question if BMI is a generalizable m...

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Publié dans:Am J Clin Nutr
Auteurs principaux: Heymsfield, Steven B, Peterson, Courtney M, Thomas, Diana M, Heo, Moonseong, Schuna, John M, Hong, Sangmo, Choi, Woong
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: American Society for Nutrition 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232013/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25411280
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.114.088831
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