Abdominal Obesity in Overweight Schoolchildren from Portoviejo (Ecuador). Conicity Index Cut-Points for Sustainable Health

(1) Background: Abdominal obesity describes the accumulation of visceral fat. Monitoring of abdominal obesity in children aids prognosis of atherogenic risk and prediction of the emergence of different comorbidities, many of which persist into and throughout adulthood. For this reason, it is of grea...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Arencibia-Moreno, Damaris Hernández-Gallardo, Daniel Linares-Girela, Johanna Sabrina Párraga-Acosta, José Gabriel Pilay-Chávez, Marta Linares-Manrique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/10/5583