Percent body fat, but not body mass index, is associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents

ABSTRACT: Abstract

Background

The epidemic of overweight and obesity has become a worldwide public health problem. Cardiometabolic diseases may originate in childhood. We investigated the association between percent body fat (PBF) measured by the bioelectrical impedance assay and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in pediatrics.

Methods

This cross‐sectional study involved 3819 subjects (6–17 years old) in Shanghai. We assessed the association between PBF and body mass index (BMI) with multiple CMR factors. We examined the risk for cardiometabolic abnormalities attributable to overweight and obesity based on age‐ and sex‐specific PBF Z‐scores and BMI Z‐scores, respectively.

Results

PBF, but not BMI, was positively associated with multiple CMR factors in males and females except for

SUBMITTER: He X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10249195 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature