Waist-to-height ratio detects fat obesity in children and adolescents significantly better than BMI (IMAGE)

University of Eastern Finland

Waist-to-height ratio detects fat obesity in children and adolescents significantly better than BMI

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Waist circumference-to-height ratio may be universally adopted, as non-invasive and inexpensive fat mass overweight and obesity surveillance, monitoring, and prevention initiatives in routine paediatric healthcare practice, also in low-resource settings.

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Andrew Agbaje

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