Lower BMI cutoffs to define overweight and obesity in China

Obesity

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 684-691

  He, Wei ^a,b   Li, Qingqing ^a   Yang, Min ^a   Jiao, Jingjing ^a   Ma, Xiaoguang ^a   Zhou, Yunjie ^a   Song, Aihua ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^c   Zhang, Shanchun ^a   Zhu, Shankuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERURICEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX; STANDARDIZATION; UNIVERSITY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITION; OVERWEIGHT; STANDARDS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84925261051     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20995     Document Type: Article

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