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- Title
TEJIDO ADIPOSO EN ESCOLARES ENTRE 7 Y 18 AÑOS DE EDAD.
- Authors
Salazar, Diego Alonso Alzate; Bermúdez, Santiago Ramos; Betancourt, Luis Gerardo Melo
- Abstract
Objective: to characterize the adipose tissue of 7 to 18 years old schoolchildren . Material and methods: descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study. Population: 224.200 students from public and private schools from Caldas in 2007, represented by 1,139 students (538 women, 601 men) probabilistic random sample in five municipalities. Technique: anthropometric measurement observation. Analysis: average, standard deviation, correlations between variables, hypothesis testing and significance of the differences between means were calculated using the Statgraphics 5.1 plus program. Results: average fat percentages were higher than those in the international reference population. Highly significant differences (P<0.01) in fat percentage were found between genders being higher in women. The nutritional classification from the energy reserve for men showed deficit 11%, normal 86.5% and excess 2,5%; for women it showed deficit 11.9%, normal 84.3% and excess 3.8%. Taking 85 and 95 percentiles of the sum of fat folds of triceps and subescapular for age as overweight and obesity criterion , the values varied slightly: 7.7% and 10.8% overweight for men and women respectively, and 3.3% and 1.1% obesity. In fat percentage (⩾25% ⩾32% men and women) obesity was found in 13.2% men and 13.6% women. These values are closer to those reported in recent international studies. Conclusions: women had more adipose tissue in all age groups and the studied population had a greater fat percentage than the international reference population.
- Subjects
CROSS-sectional method; ADIPOSE tissues; ANTHROPOMETRY; PROBABILISTIC number theory; OBESITY
- Publication
Hacia la Promoción de la Salud, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
0121-7577
- Publication type
Article