Comparison of international height and BMI-for-age growth references and their correlation with adiposity in Brazilian schoolchildren
Mariane Helen de Oliveira,
Roberto Fernandes da Costa,
Mauro Fisberg
et al.
Abstract:This study verified the diagnostic accuracy of the nutritional status classified by the international height and BMI references of the World Health Organization (WHO/2007), International Obesity Task Force (IOTF/2012), and MULT (2023). The data pool was composed by 22,737 subjects aged five to 16 years old from the Santos and Porto Alegre surveys. A correlation matrix between the z-scores of the BMI references and the skinfold measurements was calculated through the Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and the … Show more
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