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Abstract
BODY MASS INDEX in children (ages 2-12) and in adolescents (ages 13-18) that is grossly above the recommended cut-off for a specific age and sex. For infants less than 2 years of age, obesity is determined based on standard weight-for-length percentile measures.
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- Child Obesity
- Childhood Obesity
- Childhood Onset Obesity
- Obesity in Childhood
- Obesity, Child
- Obesity, Childhood
- Obesity, Childhood Onset
- Obesity, Pediatric
- Adolescent Obesity
- Adolescent Overweight
- Childhood Overweight
- Infant Obesity
- Infant Overweight
- Infantile Obesity
- Obesity in Adolescence
- Obesity, Adolescent
- Obesity, Infant
- Obesity, Infantile
- Overweight, Adolescent
- Overweight, Childhood
- Overweight, Infant
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2014
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- Obesity (1963-2013)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pediatric Obesity. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D063766. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D063766
- Pediatric Obesity. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_obesity
- Pediatric Obesity. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3241451