Nutritional status of children and adolescents based on body mass index: agreement between World Health Organization and International Obesity Task Force
Objective: To investigate the agreement between two international criteria for classification of children and adolescents nutritional status. Methods: The study included 778 girls and 863 boys aged from six to 13 years old. Body mass and height were measured and used to calculate the body mass...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Revista Paulista de Pediatria |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-05822014000100044&lng=en&tlng=en |