A population-based comparison of BMI percentiles and waist-to-height ratio for identifying cardiovascular risk in youth
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The Journal of Pediatrics
- Vol. 146 (4) , 482-488
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.12.028
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