Obesity — Anthropometric Assessment of Abdominal Obesity and Health Risk in Children and Adolescents
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Barreira TV, Broyles ST, Gupta AK, Katzmarzyk PT Relationship of anthropometric indices to abdominal and total body fat in youth: sex and race differences. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 May;22(5):1345-50. doi: 10.1002/oby.20714. Epub 2014 Feb 19.
Barreira TV, Staiano AE, Katzmarzyk PT Validity assessment of a portable bioimpedance scale to estimate body fat percentage in white and African-American children and adolescents. Pediatr Obes. 2013 Apr;8(2):e29-32. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00122.x.
Harrington DM, Staiano AE, Broyles ST, Gupta AK, Katzmarzyk PT BMI percentiles for the identification of abdominal obesity and metabolic risk in children and adolescents: evidence in support of the CDC 95th percentile. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013 Feb;67(2):218
Harrington DM, Staiano AE, Broyles ST, Gupta AK, Katzmarzyk PT Waist circumference measurement site does not affect relationships with visceral adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in children. Pediatr Obes. 2013 Jun;8(3):199-206. doi: 10.1111/j.20
Katzmarzyk PT, Bouchard C Where is the beef? Waist circumference is more highly correlated with BMI and total body fat than with abdominal visceral fat in children. Int J Obes (Lond). 2014 Jun;38(6):753-4. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.170. Epub 2013 Sep 10.
Staiano AE, Broyles ST, Gupta AK, Katzmarzyk PT Ethnic and sex differences in visceral, subcutaneous, and total body fat in children and adolescents. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Jun;21(6):1251-5. doi: 10.1002/oby.20210. Epub 2013 May 13.
Staiano AE, Broyles ST, Gupta AK, Malina RM, Katzmarzyk PT Maturity-associated variation in total and depot-specific body fat in children and adolescents. Am J Hum Biol. 2013 Jul-Aug;25(4):473-9. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22380. Epub 2013 Apr 6.
Staiano AE, Gupta AK, Katzmarzyk PT Cardiometabolic risk factors and fat distribution in children and adolescents. J Pediatr. 2014 Mar;164(3):560-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.10.064. Epub 2013 Dec 5.
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