Appropriateness of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio cutoffs for different ethnic groups
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Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents
BACKGROUND Indices predictive of adolescent central obesity include waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). Such reference data are lacking for Greek adolescents. The aim of this study was to develop age- and gender-specific WC, WHR and WHtR smoothed reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents aged 12-17 years, to investigate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0954-3007,1476-5640
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.70