Smoothed Body Composition Percentiles Curves for Mexican Children Aged 6 to 12 Years

• Main Authors: Melchor Alpizar (Author), Vanessa-Giselle Peschard (Author), Fabiola Escalante-Araiza (Author), Nelly F. Altamirano-Bustamante (Author), Chiharu Murata (Author), Ramón Arenas-Pérez (Author), Ernesto Rodriguez-Ayala (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Overweight children and childhood obesity are a public health problem in Mexico. Obesity is traditionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), but an excess of adiposity does not necessarily reflect a high BMI. Thus, body composition indexes are a better alternative. Our objective was to generate b...