Waist Circumference Values According to Height Percentiles: A Proposal to Evaluate Abdominal Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents Between 6 and 16 Years of Age

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 515-522

  Klünder Klünder, Miguel ^a   Flores Huerta, Samuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Height percentiles; Metabolic and cardiovascular diseases; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; FEMALE; HEIGHT PERCENTILE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MEXICO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 82855171044     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: 18735487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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