This paper uses fundamental principles of energy physiology to define minimum cut-off limits
for energy intake below which a person of a given sex, age and body weight could not live …

The idea that stimuli or insults during critical or sensitive periods in early life can have
lifetime consequences is well established in developmental biology and has been termed “…

This paper reviews child and adolescent adiposity measures and associated long-term health
risks. The first section argues that anthropometric measures are practical for large scale …

Background The pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
might be curtailed by vaccination. We assessed the safety, reactogenicity, and …

Background The international ( I nternational O besity T ask F orce; IOTF ) body mass index
( BMI ) cut‐offs are widely used to assess the prevalence of child overweight, obesity and …

… , a=0-25 and za=-0 67),t is age in years, and L(t), M(t), S(t), and C100n(t) indicate the
corresponding values of each curve at age t. A bonus of the LMS method is that knowing the L, M …

… Green3 highlighted the subjective and complex nature of Cole's fitting … t), M(t) and S(t). It
follows that Assume now that the distribution of y varies with covariate t, and that 1, p and (r at t …

Objective: To develop an internationally acceptable definition of child overweight and obesity,
specifying the measurement, the reference population, and the age and sex specific cut off …

Background In patients with high cholesterol levels, lowering the cholesterol level reduces
the risk of coronary events, but the effect of lowering cholesterol levels in the majority of …

… [19] the best fit was estimated using the Box-Cox-Cole-Green distribution. The optimal
degrees of freedom (df) for the spline curve was chosen to minimise the Schwarz Bayesian …