Diagnostic Performance of Neck Circumference and Cut-off Values for Identifying Overweight and Obese Pakistani Children: A Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis.
Conclusion: NC could potentially be used as a simple and widely-acceptable indicator in clinical settings for identification of overweight and obesity with a reasonable accuracy in children.
PMID: 32295325 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology - Category: Endocrinology Tags: J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol Source Type: research
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