Open AccessRole of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference for Determining Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Author(s) -
Madhur Jaiswal,
Rajesh Bansal,
Ashok Agarwal
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/27442.10422
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , anthropometry , circumference , waist , receiver operating characteristic , demography , pediatrics , mathematics , geometry , sociology
The prevalence of obesity in adolescents and children has risen to alarming levels globally and this has led to serious public health consequences.