Simple reaction time and obesity in children: whether there is a relationship?
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Simple reaction time and obesity in children: whether there is a relationship?
OBJECTIVE Reaction time (RT) testing is one of the oldest diagnostic methods used in modern psychology, and is known as simple and sensitive cognitive test. It has been recently reported that RT is related to obesity in young, adult and elderly individuals. However, most of the studies included small sample of participants, used just body mass index (BMI) as body obesity index, and did not cons...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1342-078X,1347-4715
DOI: 10.1186/s12199-017-0612-0