The use of body mass index for measurement of fat mass in children is highly dependant on abdominal fat

Autor:	Olivier Goulet, Claude Ricour, A. El Taguri, M. Dabbas-Tyan
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Waist-to-height ratio medicine.medical_specialty Body volume index General Medicine Body adiposity index medicine.disease Obesity Endocrinology Classification of obesity Internal medicine Body composition medicine Lean body mass Body mass index
Zdroj:	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 15:563-573
ISSN:	1687-1634 1020-3397
Popis:	We examined the relationship between body fat and body mass index (BMI) in a multiethnic population of obese children. BMI z-scores were compared to DEXA measures of whole body composition and regional fat distribution. Fat mass index (FMI) was best predicted by the equation: 1/[(0.159- 0.013 x percentile of total abdominal fat)- (0.01 x BMI z-score)], where percentile of abdominal fat ranges from 1 to 5. Predicted FMI had high agreement with FMI measured by DEXA. There were no detectable differences in this relation between different ethnic groups. Both BMI and abdominal fat should be used as a proxy to determine adiposity.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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