The development of waist circumference percentiles in Singaporean children aged 6.0 - 12.9 years

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Wong, Xiao Xuan
• مؤلفون آخرون: Swarup Mukherjee
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59274
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Waist circumference (WC) is an indicator of intra-abdominal fat and correlates better with metabolic risks than body mass index (BMI). This study developed the first WC percentile curves in Singaporean school children aged 6.0-12.9 years. WC, height and weight of 905 Singaporean children (437 boys a...