Utility of the waist-to-height ratio as an instrument to measure parental perception of body weight in children and its use in a population-based survey of children

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 274-280

  Nambiar, Smita ^a   Truby, Helen ^b   Hughes, Ian ^a   Davies, Peter SW ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BMI; Children; Perceived overweight; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PARENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; SIZE PERCEPTION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872148787     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012002972     Document Type: Article

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