Waist circumference percentile curves for Malaysian children and adolescents aged 6.016.9 years

International Journal of Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 229-235

  Poh, Bee Koon ^a   Jannah, Ahmad Nurul ^a   Chong, Lai Khuen ^a   Ruzita, Abd Talib ^a   Ismail, Mohd Noor ^a   McCarthy, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Adolescent; Asian; Child; Malaysia; Percentiles; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHINESE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALAY; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79960354045     PISSN: 17477166     EISSN: 17477174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17477166.2011.583658     Document Type: Article

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