Evaluation of two classifications for overweight among Brazilian adolescents;Avaliação de duas classificações para excesso de peso em adolescentes Brasileiros

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 653-656

  Vitolo, Márcia Regina ^a   Campagnolo, Paula Dal Bó ^a   Barros, Maria Elisa ^b   Gama, Cíntia Mendes ^a   Lopez, Fábio Ancona ^c  

^a Fundaao Faculdade Federal de Ciencias Medicas de Porto Alegre e Centro de Neuroendocrinologia   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescent health; Body mass index; Cross sectional studies; Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Overweight; Predictive value of tests; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548147697     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102007000400021     Document Type: Article

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