Piazzi A, De Vinci M, Maggiore A, Orecchio F
Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, Roma.
Minerva Med. 1990 Sep;81(9):617-23.
The surveying of weight and height allows to measure for every subject the body mass index which is a risk indicator both for obesity and for juvenile blood hypertension. The A. have verified and demonstrated that the surveying of weight and height orally told by teen-agers can be a rapid and economic instrument to execute a first screening for such pathologies.