Zhang, Lin
Chen, Ran
Li, Rong
Chen, Meng-Ying
Huang, Rong
Li, Xiao-Nan
Article History
Received: 19 September 2016
Accepted: 10 February 2017
First Online: 7 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The study “Evaluating the predictive factors of resting energy expenditure and validating predictive equations for Chinese obese children” was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China (No.201412004-1) and conducted according to the principles in the Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical clinical standards. All of the enrolled subjects and their parents were fully informed about the procedure and the purpose of this study and written consent was obtained from the parents of all children before inclusion.
: No competing financial interests exist.
: Additional informed consent was obtained from all individual participants for whom identifying information is included in this article.