Cardio-metabolic risk screening among adolescents: Understanding the utility of body mass index, waist circumference, and waist to height ratio

BACKGROUND: Few studies have assessed how well BMI, waist circumference (WC), or waist to height ratio (WtHR) perform in identifying cardio-metabolic risk among youth. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the utility of BMI and WC percentiles and WtHR to distinguish adolescents with and without cardio-metabolic r...

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Publié dans:Pediatr Obes
Auteurs principaux: Bauer, Katherine W., Marcus, Marsha D., El ghormli, Laure, Ogden, Cynthia L., Foster, Gary D.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470887/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515620
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.267
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