Augmenting BMI and waist-height ratio for establishing more efficient obesity percentiles among school-going children

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-139

  Panjikkaran, Seeja Thomachan ^a   Kumari, K S ^a  

^a KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

BMI; Children; India; Methodology; Nutrition; Overweight; Percentile chart; Waist circumference; Waist height ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249099364     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.51233     Document Type: Article

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