Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio percentiles in a nationally representative sample of 6-13 year old children in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Aeberli, Isabelle ^a,b   Gut Knabenhans, Marisa ^a   Kusche Ammann, Rachel S ^a   Molinari, Luciano ^c   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body fat; Body mass index; Children; Overweight; Waist circumference; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SWITZERLAND; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; AGE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SWITZERLAND; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 80052223038     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13227     Document Type: Article

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