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- Title
Accuracy of Anthropometric Indices in Predicting Excess Abdominal Adiposity among Ten to Eighteen- Year-Old Adolescents.
- Authors
Carvalho, Monique S. N.; Salvador, Emanuel P.; Navarro, Renata G.; Farias, Edson S.; Souza, Orivaldo F.; Carvalho, Wellington R. G.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of anthropometric indicators and propose cut-off points for the predicting of excess abdominal adiposity. Cross-sectional study with 731 schoolchildren aged 10-18 yrs. ROC curves were used to compare the accuracy of the body mass index (BMI), waist (WC) and neck circumference (NC), conicity index (C Index), Σ2SFs, and weight-to-height ratio (WHtR). Of the anthropometric indicators assessed, WC and WHtR presented the largest areas under the ROC curve in the prediction of abdominal adiposity in both sexes. Cut-off points of abdominal adiposity for boys and girls were BMI 22.80 kg·m-2 and 21.80 kg·m-2, WC 75.60 cm and 75.00 cm, C index 1.18 and 1.55; NC 34.60 cm and 32.50, Σ2SFs 35.00 mm and 42.50 mm, and WHtR was 0.46 and 0.48, respectively. The findings indicate that BMI, WC, C index, NC, Σ2SFs, and WHtR can be used as high-sensitivity screening methods for assessing excess abdominal adiposity in adolescents.
- Subjects
BODY mass index; ADOLESCENT obesity; CHILDHOOD obesity; RECEIVER operating characteristic curves; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Journal of Exercise Physiology Online, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 4, p112
- ISSN
1097-9751
- Publication type
Article