Waist circumference cutoff points in school-aged Chinese Han and Uygur children

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1687-1692

  Yan, Weili ^a   Yao, Hua ^a   Dai, Jianghong ^a   Cui, Jun ^b   Chen, Yan ^a   Yang, Xiaoyan ^a   Harshfield, Gregory A ^c   Wang, Xiaoling ^c  

^a XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Education and Research Center of Urumqi   (China)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LIPID;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIPIDS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 46249102118     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.245     Document Type: Article

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