منابع مشابه
Secular trends in pediatric BMI.
Studies that use cross-sectional data have shown an increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity, as assessed by BMI (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), over the past 30 y in the United States (1). Between the 1960s and 2000 the distribution of BMI among children became more skewed, whereas between 2000 and 2010 there was relatively little change among either boys or g...
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OBJECTIVE The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents increased by almost threefold from the 1970s to 2000. We examined whether these secular changes in BMI were accompanied by increases in blood pressure levels. METHODS A total of 24,092 examinations were conducted among 11,478 children and adolescents (aged 5-17 years) from 1974 to 1993 in the Bogalusa Heart Study (Louisiana). ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.035667