Secular change in waist circumference and waist-height ratio and optimal cutoff of waist-height ratio for abdominal obesity among Korean children and adolescents over 10 years

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the time trends of waist circumference (WC) and waist-height ratio (WHR), and to present WC and WHR distributions with optimal WHR cutoff for abdominal obesity in Korean children and adolescents. Methods We performed a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of da...

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Main Authors: Min Sub Kim, Se Young Kim, Jae Hyun Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Pediatric Society 2019-07-01
Series:Korean Journal of Pediatrics
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Online Access:http://kjp.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjp-2018-07038.pdf