Obesity in a cohort of black Jamaican children as estimated by BMI and other indices of adiposity

Objective : To examine the relationships of body mass index (BMI) to obesity indices derived from anthropometry and to determine tracking of overweight between late childhood and early adolescence, in a cohort of children with mixed nutritional history. We also compared identification of overweight...

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Published in:	European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 420 - 426
Main Authors:	Gaskin, P S, Walker, S P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.03.2003 Nature Publishing Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	Adipose Tissue adiposity adolescence Adolescents adults African Continental Ancestry Group Age Distribution Anthropometry Biological and medical sciences Black people Body Composition Body fat Body Mass Index Body size Body weight boys Child childhood Children Children & youth Clinical Nutrition Cohort Studies Epidemiology Feeding. Feeding behavior Female Follow-Up Studies Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Girls Humans Internal Medicine Jamaica Jamaica - epidemiology Male Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Metabolic Diseases National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Nutrition Surveys Obesity Obesity - diagnosis Obesity - epidemiology original-communication Overweight Prospective Studies puberty Public Health Reference Values Regression analysis Sensitivity analysis Sensitivity and Specificity Sex Characteristics Teenagers Tracking variance Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems Central America Jamaica America West Indies early adolescence BMI cut-off points skinfolds late childhood overweight Human Obesity Late Adipose tissue Nutrition disorder Black Overweight Body mass index Adolescent Early Child Nutritional status
ISSN:	0954-3007, 1476-5640
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