Abdominal circumference as an indicator of clinical and laboratory parameters associated with obesity in children and adolescents: Comparison between two reference tables

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-185

  De Almeida, Carlos A N ^a,b   Pinho, Adriana P ^a   Ricco, Rubens G ^a   Elias, Cecília P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIBEIRÃO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abdominal circumference; Adolescent; Dyslipidemias; Insulin resistance; Leptin; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 34147132367     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1604     Document Type: Article

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