Adiposity assessments: agreement between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric measures in US children1-3

To evaluate performance of anthropometric measures relative to percentage body fat (%BF) measured by dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry in children.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Obesity

• Publication date

  2014-02-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/oby.20689PMID 24415710PMCID 4037470
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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