Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio percentiles and central obesity among Pakistani children aged five to twelve years

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mushtaq, Muhammad Umair ^a,b   Gull, Sibgha ^a   Abdullah, Hussain Muhammad ^a   Shahid, Ubeera ^a   Shad, Mushtaq Ahmad ^b   Akram, Javed ^a  

^a ALLAMA IQBAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b District Health Office Nankana Sahib   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL OBESITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCOME; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HEIGHT RATIO; WAIST HIP RATIO; BODY HEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 81355138216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-105     Document Type: Article

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