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

• Главные авторы: Melchor Alpizar (Автор), Vanessa-Giselle Peschard (Автор), Fabiola Escalante-Araiza (Автор), Nelly F. Altamirano-Bustamante (Автор), Chiharu Murata (Автор), Ramón Arenas-Pérez (Автор), Ernesto Rodriguez-Ayala (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: MDPI AG, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...