Nutritional status of children and adolescents based on body mass index: agreement between World Health Organization and International Obesity Task Force
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Nutritional status of children and adolescents based on body mass index: agreement between World Health Organization and International Obesity Task Force
OBJECTIVE To investigate the agreement between two international criteria for classification of children and adolescents nutritional status. METHODS The study included 778 girls and 863 boys aged from six to 13 years old. Body mass and height were measured and used to calculate the body mass index. Nutritional status was classified according to the cut-off points defined by the World Health O...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Paulista de Pediatria
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1984-0462,0103-0582
DOI: 10.1590/s0103-05822014000100008