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- Title
Neck circumference: an additional tool of screening overweight and obesity in childhood.
- Authors
Hatipoglu, Nihal; Mazicioglu, M. Mumtaz; Kurtoglu, Selim; Kendirci, Mustafa
- Abstract
<bold>Unlabelled: </bold>Obesity, particularly in the upper part of body, is a major health problem. Central obesity is related to cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. There are various techniques for assessing upper body fat content for the overweight and obese subjects other than waist circumference (WC). We tried to find out if neck circumference (NC) alone can be used to assess overweight and obesity. Four hundred twelve overweight and obese patients (208 girls and 204 boys) and 555 healthy children (284 girls and 271 boys) aged 6-18 years were recruited for this present study. There were significant and positive correlations between BMI-WC, BMI-NC, and WC-NC (p < 0.001). NC cutoffs for overweight and obesity were determined for each age and pubertal period. NC cutoffs of boys were increased from 28.0 to 38.0. This range was 27.0-34.5 for girls in the same range. We also calculated NC cutoffs for prepubertal and pubertal periods (respectively, 29.0 and 32.5 for boys and 28.0-31.0 for girls).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>NC is a reliable and easy to use tool to determine overweight and obesity in children, and NC is not as good as WC in determining overweight and obesity, both providing similar information.
- Subjects
TURKEY; CHILDHOOD obesity; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; METABOLIC disorders; BODY size; OVERWEIGHT children; PREVENTION of obesity; ADIPOSE tissues; HUMAN body composition; MEDICAL screening; NECK; PUBERTY; REFERENCE values; BODY mass index; CASE-control method; WAIST circumference
- Publication
European Journal of Pediatrics, 2010, Vol 169, Issue 6, p733
- ISSN
0340-6199
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00431-009-1104-z