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- Title
Obesity prevalence in Norwegian adults assessed by body mass index, waist circumference and fat mass percentage.
- Authors
Kjær, I. G. H.; Kolle, E.; Hansen, B. H.; Anderssen, S. A.; Torstveit, M. K.
- Abstract
The prevalence of obesity presents serious public health challenges worldwide and is most commonly estimated by the categorization of body mass index ( BMI). The purpose of this study was (i) to describe the sensitivity of BMI, waist circumference ( WC) and fat mass percentage in the classification of overweight and obesity and (ii) to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity using different measurement methods in a national sample of Norwegians. A total of 904 Norwegians (20-85 years) were randomly enrolled. Body weight, height, WC and skinfold thickness were measured; BMI and fat mass percentage ( FPskf) were calculated. The sensitivity and specificity varied from 77.0% to 86.9% and from 60.6% to 82.3%, respectively. Area under the curve was 0.837 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.801-0.872) for the ability of BMI to predict obesity by FPskf and 0.811 (95% CI: 0.770-0.852) for WC. A total of 12.7% (male: 12.1%, female: 13.4%) were obese based on BMI classifications, 29.1% (male: 36.5%, female: 20.0%) of the sample were obese based on FPskf and 24.3% of men and 37.8% of women were abdominally obese by WC. The agreement between selected measuring methods was fair to good, although the variation in obesity prevalence rates between the different assessments methods varied markedly.
- Subjects
NORWAY; OBESITY complications; BODY mass index; WAIST circumference; OVERWEIGHT persons; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Clinical Obesity, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 4, p211
- ISSN
1758-8103
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cob.12100