Abdominal Obesity in Overweight Schoolchildren from Portoviejo (Ecuador). Conicity Index Cut-Points for Sustainable Health
| Autor: | Ricardo Arencibia-Moreno, Johanna Sabrina Párraga-Acosta, Daniel Linares-Girela, José Gabriel Pilay-Chávez, Damaris Hernández-Gallardo, Marta Linares-Manrique |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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lifestyle
Waist sustainable health Geography Planning and Development Lifestyles TJ807-830 body mass index Management Monitoring Policy and Law Overweight TD194-195 Renewable energy sources abdominal obesity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine children Nutritional status 030225 pediatrics medicine GE1-350 030212 general & internal medicine Children Abdominal obesity Body mass index Atherogenic diet Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Sustainable health Mean age medicine.disease Obesity nutritional status Environmental sciences medicine.symptom business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada instname Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 5583, p 5583 (2021) Digibug: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada Universidad de Granada (UGR) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 10 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13105583 |
| Popis: | (1) Background: Abdominal obesity describes the accumulation of visceral fat. Monitoring of abdominal obesity in children aids prognosis of atherogenic risk and prediction of the emergence of different comorbidities, many of which persist into and throughout adulthood. For this reason, it is of great diagnostic value to the sustainability of health in populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate abdominal obesity in overweight schoolchildren from Portoviejo (Ecuador) and propose conicity index cut-points for sustainable health. (2) Methods: The sample was formed by 356 schoolchildren whose BMI z-score deemed them to be overweight. Height, weight, waist circumference (wstC), various skinfolds, percent body fat, conicity index (CI) and overweight classification according to wstC were determined. (3) Results: The mean age was 6.83 ± 1.2 years, 17.4% were obese, 34.8% were overweight and 47.8% were at risk of being overweight according to their BMI z-score. The mean height was 1.29 ± 0.12 m, whilst the mean weight was 35.21 ± 11.57 kg. When classifying according to wstC, 37.9% were identified as obese, 28.1% had high-risk abdominal adiposity and 34% were normal. The average CI was 1.16 ± 0.06, whilst that of body fat was 19.34 ± 6.03, with 56.2% of individuals having body fat values lower than 20%. (4) Conclusions: The sample showed a high prevalence of central obesity. Significant agreement was not found between classifications of nutritional status according to BMI z-score and wstC. Technical University of Manabí (UTM) |
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