Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to identify birth weight cutoffs to predict overweight in Mexican school children;Curvas ROC para identificação de pontos de corte do peso ao nascer na predição do excesso de peso em escolares mexicanos

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-47

  De Moraes, Suzana Alves ^a,d   De Freitas, Isabel C M ^a   Mondini, Lenise ^b   Rosas, Juana B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria de Estado da Saude   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE GUERRERO   (Mexico)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Body mass index; Cross sectional studies; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; ROC CURVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVERWEIGHT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 60149109670     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1858     Document Type: Article

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