The high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children.

@article{DelRoNavarro2004TheHP,
  title={The high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children.},
  author={Blanca E. Del R{\'i}o-Navarro and Oscar J Vel{\'a}zquez-Monroy and Claudia P. S{\'a}nchez-Castillo and Agust{\'i}n Lara-Esqueda and Arturo Berber and Guillermo Fangh{\"a}nel and Rafael Violante and Roberto Tapia-Conyer and W. Philip T. James},
  journal={Obesity research},
  year={2004},
  volume={12 2},
  pages={
          215-23
        }
}
OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children 10 to 17 years of age according to the percentiles from both the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF. [] Key Method The study population consisted of 7862 boys and 8947 girls, 10 to 17 years of age.
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