Weight and height prediction of immobilized patients

Revista de Nutricao

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 655-661

  Rabito, Estela Iraci ^a,b   Vannucchi, Gabriela Bergamini ^b,c   Suen, Vivian Marques Miguel ^b   Neto, Laércio Lopes Castilho ^b   Marchini, Júlio Sérgio ^b  

^a Faculdade Evangélica do Paraná   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO EVANGÉLICO DE CURITIBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body height; Body weight; Linear models

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

EID: 33947134289     PISSN: 14155273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-52732006000600002     Document Type: Article

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