Abstract Information on malnutrition for school‐age children and adolescents (5–19 years) in
South Asia is fragmented and inconsistent, which limits the prioritization of nutrition policies …

The prevalence of goiter, thyroid nodules, and thyroid cancers in the pediatric population
has increased. In some rare cases, local conditions such as juvenile desmoid-type …

Objective: Neck circumference (NC) is currently used as an embryonic marker of obesity and
its associated risks. But its use in clinical evaluations and other epidemiological purposes …

Background Neck circumference is one of the anthropometric parameters that is widely used
in practical applications, clinical and epidemiological studies in children. It is aimed to …

Neck circumference (NC) is a predictive measure for the diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome
(MS). The aim of the present study was to establish cutoff points for NC as a predictor of the …

Neck circumference was studied for the first time in a pediatric population in 2010. Since
then, various countries have proposed cutoff values to identify overweight, obesity, and …

Background The increased incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors has become a public
health issue, especially in childhood and adolescence. Thus, early identification is essential …

A large number of clinical studies have proved that body shape is closely related to health.
Considering the actual situation, the traditional health examination has some limitations …

Introducción: el índice de masa corporal (IMC) se usa comúnmente para diagnosticar el
sobrepeso y la obesidad, y la circunferencia de la cintura (CC), para estimar la grasa …

ABSTRACT Background and Aim: Overweight and obesity has a great impact on individual
health and quality of life. Most of the psychosocial and physical health problems are …