Introducing excess body weight in childhood and adolescence and comparison with body mass index and waist-to-height ratio

Background: Weight status in children and adolescents is commonly defined using age- and gender-corrected standard deviation scores for body mass index (BMI-SDS, also called z -scores). Values are not reliable for the extremely obese however. Moreover, paediatricians and parents may have difficultie...

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Veröffentlicht in:	International Journal of Obesity 2015-01, Vol.39 (1), p.52-60
Hauptverfasser:	Petroff, D, Kromeyer-Hauschild, K, Wiegand, S, l'Allemand-Jander, D, Binder, G, Schwab, K-O, Stachow, R, Kiess, W, Hammer, E, Sturm, S, Holl, R W, Blüher, S
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	692/699/2743/393 692/700/139/2818 Adolescence Adolescent Adolescents Age Anthropometry Body Height Body Mass Index Body size Body weight Child Child development Child, Preschool Childhood Children Correlation coefficient Correlation coefficients Endocrinology Epidemiology Female Gastrointestinal surgery Gender Germany Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Health Status Indicators Hospitals Humans Infant Internal Medicine Male Measurement Medical research Medical statistics Medicine Medicine & Public Health Medicine, Experimental Metabolic Diseases Metabolism Obesity Obesity in children Overweight Parameters Pediatric Obesity - diagnosis pediatric-original-article Pediatrics Population Practice Guidelines as Topic Public Health Reproducibility of Results Risk Factors ROC Curve Sensitivity and Specificity Surgery Teenagers Therapy Waist-Hip Ratio Weight control
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