Total Body Fat Content versus BMI in 4-Year-Old Healthy Swedish Children
Childhood overweight and obesity, a worldwide problem, is generally identified using BMI (body mass index). However, this application of BMI has been little investigated in children below 5 years of age due to a lack of appropriate methods to assess body composition. Therefore, we used air displacem...
Main Authors: | Elisabet Forsum, Eva Flinke Carlsson, Hanna Henriksson, Pontus Henriksson, Marie Löf |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2013-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Obesity |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/206715 |
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