Use of body mass index and percentage overweight cutoffs to screen Japanese children and adolescents for obesity-related risk factors

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-53

  Okuda, Masayuki ^a   Sugiyama, Shinichi ^b   Kunitsugu, Ichiro ^b   Hinoda, Yuji ^b   Okuda, Yumi ^c   Shirabe, Komei ^d   Yoshitake, Norikazu ^b   Hobara, Tatsuya ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Yamaguchi Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Japanese; Percentage overweight; Risk factors; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649205851     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20090036     Document Type: Article

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