Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents.
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Abstract
To describe and provide estimates of the distribution of waist circumference (WC)
according to percentiles in African-, European-, and Mexican-American children, and
to test for group differences at different percentiles.
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Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Clinical Nutrition Research
Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-3360, USA. jose@uab.edu <jose@uab.edu>