Reformulation of BMI and percent body fat to remove the height bias in 8-year-olds

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2175-2181

  Telford, Richard D ^a,b   Cunningham, Ross B ^c  

^a Public Health Research Unit   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY;

EID: 50649121595     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.332     Document Type: Article

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