High Body Mass Index Percentile Accurately Reflects Excess Adiposity in White Girls

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-441

  Bartok, Cynthia J ^a   Marini, Michele E ^a   Birch, Leann L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IDEAL BODY WEIGHT; OVERWEIGHT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951684095     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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