Open AccessMeasurement of Waist Circumference at Four Different Sites in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Concordance and Correlation with Nutritional Status as well as Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
Author(s) -
Britta Hitze,
Anja BosyWestphal,
Fenja Bielfeldt,
Uta Settler,
Heiner Mönig,
Manfred J. Müller
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
obesity facts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1662-4033
pISSN - 1662-4025
DOI - 10.1159/000157248
Subject(s) - medicine , waist , body mass index , overweight , concordance , demography , circumference , percentile , anthropometry , statistics , geometry , mathematics , sociology
This study investigates the concordance of four waist circumference (WC) measurement sites, and examines their relationships with nutritional status and cardiometabolic risk.
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