Body Mass Index in Children Validated by Metabolic and Fat Mass Profiling

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¹ Heart Health Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Electronic address: ville-petteri.makinen@sahmri.com.

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Ville-Petteri Mäkinen. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018.

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. 2018 Dec 18;72(24):3155-3157.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.10.016.

¹ Heart Health Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Electronic address: ville-petteri.makinen@sahmri.com.

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Keywords: body composition; body mass index; childhood obesity; metabolomics.

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Associations of Body Mass and Fat Indexes With Cardiometabolic Traits.
Bell JA, Carslake D, O'Keeffe LM, Frysz M, Howe LD, Hamer M, Wade KH, Timpson NJ, Davey Smith G. Bell JA, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Dec 18;72(24):3142-3154. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.066. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018. PMID: 30545453 Free PMC article.