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Association of leg length with overweight and obesity in children aged 5–15 years: A cross-sectional study

T. Pliakas London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, UK
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H. D. McCarthy Institute for Health Research and Policy, London Metropolitan University, 166–220 Holloway Road, N7 8DB, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 10-22 | Received 06 Jun 2008, Accepted 01 Jun 2009, Published online: 08 Dec 2009

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Mikako Inokuchi, Nobutake Matsuo, John I. Takayama & Tomonobu Hasegawa. (2022) Reference values of inside leg length and inside leg length to stature ratio for Japanese children, 0–12 years of age. Annals of Human Biology 49:1, pages 1-9.
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Lifoter K. Navti, Dimple Samani-Radia & H. David McCarthy. (2014) Children’s body fatness and prevalence of obesity in relation to height for age. Annals of Human Biology 41:1, pages 84-90.
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Alonso Vazquez‐Gomez, María Luisa Ávila‐Escalante, Hugo Azcorra, Maria Inês Varela‐Silva & Federico Dickinson. (2019) Body proportionality and adiposity are not related in 6‐ to 8‐year‐old Yucatec Maya children. American Journal of Human Biology, pages e23254.
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Stewart C. Morrison, David McCarthy & Ryan Mahaffey. (2018) Associations Between Obesity and Pediatric Foot Dimensions. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association 108:5, pages 383-389.
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Marcus H. Jones, Cristian Roncada, Morgana Thais Carollo Fernandes, João Paulo Heinzmann-Filho, Edgar Enrique Sarria Icaza, Rita Mattiello, Paulo Marcio C. Pitrez, Leonardo A. Pinto & Renato T. Stein. (2017) Asthma and Obesity in Children Are Independently Associated with Airway Dysanapsis. Frontiers in Pediatrics 5.
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Lifoter K Navti, Uta Ferrari, Emmanuel Tange, Klaus G Parhofer & Susanne Bechtold-Dalla Pozza. (2015) Height-obesity relationship in school children in Sub-Saharan Africa: results of a cross-sectional study in Cameroon. BMC Research Notes 8:1.
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H. David McCarthy. (2014) Measuring growth and obesity across childhood and adolescence. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 73:2, pages 210-217.
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