BMI-for-age graphs with severe obesity percentile curves: tools for plotting cross-sectional and longitudinal youth BMI data

• Principais autores: Susan B. Racette (Autor), Liyang Yu (Autor), Nicholas C. DuPont (Autor), B. Ruth Clark (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Severe obesity is an important and distinct weight status classification that is associated with disease risk and is increasing in prevalence among youth. The ability to graphically present population weight status data, ranging from underweight through severe obesity class 3, is...