A Comparison of Field Measures of Adiposity Among Australian Adolescents from the Raine Study

A Comparison of Field Measures of Adiposity Among Australian Adolescents from the Raine Study

This study examined the possible inter-changeability of common proxy measures of adiposity in adolescent 14 year olds from a large cohort. A sample of 1,607 adolescents (n = 825 male and n = 782 female) was drawn from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study. Pearson Product Moment Corr...

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Main Authors: Chivers, P., Hands, B., Beilin, L., Kendall, Garth, Bulsara, Max, Parker, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia 2010
Subjects:
Waist-Height Ratio
waist girth
Waist-Hip Ratio
adiposity
obesity
BMI
Pearson Moment Correlation
Raine Study
Bland Regression limits of agreement
Bland-Altman method
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5194

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5194

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