Open AccessAugmenting BMI and waist-height ratio for establishing more efficient obesity percentiles among school-going children
Author(s) -
Seeja Thomachan Panjikkaran,
K. Geetha Kumari
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.51233
Subject(s) - percentile , waist , waist to height ratio , obesity , medicine , demography , pediatrics , statistics , mathematics , sociology
1. Are all the existing methods for estimating the obesity and overweight in school going children in India equally efficient? 2. How to derive more efficient obesity percentiles to determine obesity and overweight status in school-going children aged 7-12 years old?