Obesity measured as percent body fat, relationship with body mass index, and percentile curves for Mexican pediatric population

In Mexico, the increase in childhood obesity is alarming. Thus, improving the precision of its diagnosis is expected to impact on disease prevention. We estimated obesity prevalence by bioimpedance–based percent body fat (%BF) and body mass index (BMI) in 1061 girls and 1121 boys, from 3 to 17 years...

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Main Author:	Costa-Urrutia, Paula (author)
Other Authors:	Vizuet-Gámez, A. (author), Ramírez-Alcántara, M. (author), Guillen-González, M.A. (author), Medina-Contreras, O. (author), Valdes-Moreno, M. (author), Musalem-Younes, C. (author), Solares-Tlapechco, J. (author), Granados, J. (author), Franco-Trecu, Valentina (author), Rodríguez-Arellano, M.E. (author)
Format:	article
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Childhood obesity Percent body fat Body mass index Percentile curves
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/28341
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