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Obesity measured as percent body fat, relationship with body mass index, and percentile curves for Mexican pediatric population

Pediatrics
Author
Costa-Urrutia et al.
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Used Parameters : BW, PBF
Publication Year : 2019
Country : Mexico
Journal : Plos One
In Mexico, the increase in childhood obesity is alarming. Thus, improving the precision of its diagnosis is expected to impact on disease prevention. We estimated obesity prevalence by bioimpedance–based percent body fat (% BF) and body mass index (BMI) in 1061 girls and 1121 boys, from 3 to 17 years old. Multiple regressions and area under receiver operating curves (AUC) were used to determine the predictive value of BMI on% BF and percentile curves were constructed. Overall obesity prevalence estimated by% BF was 43.7%, and by …
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