Waist circumference percentile curves for Bulgarian children and adolescents aged 618 years

International Journal of Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-388

  Galcheva, Sonya V ^a   Iotova, Violeta M ^a   Yotov, Yoto T ^a   Grozdeva, Kera P ^b   Stratev, Velin K ^c   Tzaneva, Valentina I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ST MARINA   (Bulgaria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

^c Varna Military Hospital   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Percentile; Smoothed curves; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BULGARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BULGARIA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 70450192517     PISSN: 17477166     EISSN: 17477174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17477160902846195     Document Type: Article

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