Use of body mass index and percentage overweight cutoffs to screen Japanese children and adolescents for obesity-related risk factors.

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Published in J Epidemiol on October 24, 2009

Authors

Masayuki Okuda1, Shinichi Sugiyama, Ichiro Kunitsugu, Yuji Hinoda, Yumi Okuda, Komei Shirabe, Norikazu Yoshitake, Tatsuya Hobara

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan. okuda@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

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