Waist circumference percentiles for Hispanic-American children and comparison with other international references.
Autor: | Marrodán Serrano MD; Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Román E; Institute of Biology of Altitude, National University of Jujuy, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina., Carmenate M; Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain., González-Montero de Espinosa M; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Herráez A; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.; Department of Systems Biology, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain., Alfaro EL; Institute of Biology of Altitude, National University of Jujuy, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina., Lomaglio DB; Center for the Study of Biological Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, National University of Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina., López-Ejeda N; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Mesa MS; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Vázquez V; Faculty of Biology, Havana University, La Habana, Cuba., Méndez Pérez B; Institute of Economic and Social Research, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela., Meléndez JM; Department of Nutrition, Research Center in Food and Development (CIAD), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico., Moreno-Romero S; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Prado C; EPINUT Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.; Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Dipierri JE; Institute of Biology of Altitude, National University of Jujuy, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Zdroj: | American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council [Am J Hum Biol] 2021 May; Vol. 33 (3), pp. e23496. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 07. |
DOI: | 10.1002/ajhb.23496 |
Abstrakt: | Introduction: Waist circumference (WC) constitutes an indirect measurement of central obesity in children and adolescents. Objective: To provide percentiles of WC for Hispanic-American children and adolescents, and compare them with other international references. Materials and Methods: The sample comprised 13 289 healthy children between 6 and 18 years coming from public schools of middle and low socioeconomic levels in different parts of Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. The LMS method to calculate WC percentiles was applied. Sex and age differences were assessed using Student's t test and ANOVA (SPSS v.21.0). Comparisons were established with references from the United States, Colombia, India, China, Australia, Kuwait, Germany, Tunisia, Greece, and Portugal. Results: WC increases with age in both sexes. Boys show higher WC in P3, P50, and P97. Comparison of 50th and 90th percentiles among populations from diverse sociocultural and geographical contexts shows high variability, not all justified by the measurement method. Discussion and Conclusions: Specific WC percentiles for sex and age, and P90 cut-off points are provided; these values are potentially useful to assess central obesity in Hispanic-American adolescent children. (© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.) |
Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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