New age-adjusted measure of body fat distribution in children and adolescents: Standardization of waist-hip ratio using multivariate analysis

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 594-599

  Asayama, K ^a   Hayashi, K ^b,c   Kawada, Y ^a   Nakane, T ^a   Uchida, N ^a   Hayashibe, H ^a   Kawasaki, K ^b   Nakazawa, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropometric methods; Body fat distribution; Children and adolescents; Principal component analysis; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0030906218     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800447     Document Type: Article

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