Percentage body fat in apparently healthy school children from northern India.

Abstract:

CONTEXT:Increased prevalence of obesity in childhood and adolescence, defined by the use of body mass index (BMI), has drawn attention towards direct measurement of body fat. OBJECTIVE:To develop age-and sex-specific reference distribution of body fat in apparently healthy North-Indian children in the age group of 7-17 years and to assess agreement between obesity (defined by BMI) and excess body fat. DESIGN:Study subjects for this cross sectional study included 1640 apparently healthy school children (825 boys; 815 girls) aged 7-17 years. Total body fat was measured by dual energy X-rays absorptiometry (DXA). The excess body fat by DXA was defined by two methods, prevalence matching and with the use of 85th and 95th centile cutoffs. RESULTS:The mean ± SD, 3rd, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 97th centile values of percentage body fat (PBF) are presented. PBF was highly correlated with BMI in both boys and girls (all boys: r=0.76, P<0.0001; all girls r=0.81, P<0.0001). There was no significant difference noted in PBF between boys and girls at the age of 7-8 years. From 9 years onwards, girls had significantly higher PBF than boys. Moderate degree of agreement was observed between BMI and PBF by DXA by both methods. CONCLUSIONS:Smoothened reference distribution of PBF for North-Indian children and adolescents in Delhi are provided. Indian children accumulate more body fat during peri-pubertal years in comparison with US children.

journal_name

Indian Pediatr

journal_title

Indian pediatrics

authors

Khadgawat R,Marwaha RK,Tandon N,Mehan N,Upadhyay AD,Sastry A,Bhadra K

doi

10.1007/s13312-013-0237-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-09-01 00:00:00

pages

859-66

issue

9

eissn

0019-6061

issn

0974-7559

pii

S097475591200504

journal_volume

50

pub_type

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