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Novel Type of References for BMI Aligned for Onset of Puberty - Using the QEPS Growth Model
2022-02-11
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<h4>Objectives: </h4> Despite inter-individual variations in pubertal timing, growth references are conventionally constructed relative to chronological age (C-age). Thus, they are based on reference populations containing a mix of prepubertal and pubertal individuals, making them of limited use for detecting abnormal growth during adolescence. Recently we developed new types of height and weight references, with...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7d51bf83-5ab7-57ef-8d8a-6315e5cceebb
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1152091/v1
