The impact of the sexual maturation stage on body mass index in adolescent girls

Body mass index (BMI) is used in the clinical assessment of adiposity in children and adolescents. Population-based, race-specific and age-specific curves of BMI for children and adolescents exist, but there are noknown sexual maturation-based BMI curves. The aim of this study was to investig...

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Main Authors: S S Yalçin, E Kinik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health 1999-07-01
Series:The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
Online Access:https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/3238
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