Body weight divided by squared knee height as an alternative to body mass index

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 336-338

  Kuwabara, Akiko ^a,b   Ogawa Shimokawa, Yoko ^a   Tanaka, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b and Cultural Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KNEE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUARED KNEE HEIGHT; WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; THINNESS; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 79751527766     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.10.033     Document Type: Article

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