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Table 2 Relationship between neck circumference (NC) and age, body mass, length and BMI by sex, Joinville, SC, Brazil, 2013-2014.

From: Neck circumference as a complementary measure to identify risk of excess body mass in children younger than 2 years old

Characteristic

NC

 

Boys

Girls

 

rho

p value

rho

p value

Age

0.024

0.778

0.124

0.151

Body mass

0.520

<0.001

0.660

<0.001

Length

0.117

0.172

0.358

<0.001

BMI

0.635

<0.001

0.606

<0.001

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