Publication: Body Compositionin Children and Adolescents Residing in Southern Europe: Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Accordingto Different International References
Authors
López Sánchez, Guillermo Felipe ; Sgroi, Maurizio ; Díaz Suárez, Arturo ; D’Ottavio, Stefano ; González-Víllora, Sixto ; Veronese, Nicola ; Smith, Lee
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Frontiers Media
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00130
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Abstract
The objectivewastoanalyzebodycompositioninchildrenandadolescentsofSouthern
Europetoidentifyprevalenceofoverweightandobesity.Thisinvestigationinvolved512
girls and488boysbetween7-to19-years.VariablesevaluatedwereBodyMassIndex
(BMI) andFatMass(FM;electricalbioimpedance).Thereferencesusedtoestablish
prevalenceaccordingtoBMIwerethoseoftheWorldHealthOrganization(WHO)
and theInternationalObesityTaskForce(IOTF);inthecaseofFM,theChildGrowth
Foundation (CGF)referencewasused.Thereweresignificantdifferences(p < 0.05)
in theprevalenceofoverweightandobesitybetweenthethreeclassifications(32.3%
accordingtoIOTF,37.3%accordingtoWHO,and39.8%accordingtoCGF),being
higher inmales.WHO-IOTFconcordancewassubstantial(kappa=0.793),whereas
concordancesWHO-CGF(kappa=0.504)andIOTF-CGF(kappa=0.447)were
moderate. Theauthorsrecommendevaluatingoverweightandobesitynotonlywith
BMI, butalsowithFM,andalwaysspecifythereferencesused
Citation
López-Sánchez GF, Sgroi M, D’Ottavio S, Díaz-Suárez A, González-Víllora S, Veronese N and Smith L (2019) Body Composition in Children and Adolescents Residing in Southern Europe: Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity According to Different International References. Front. Physiol. 10:130. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00130
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