BMI-based obesity classification misses children and adolescents with raised cardiometabolic risk due to increased adiposity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess how inaccurately the body mass index (BMI) is used to diagnose obesity compared to body fat percentage (BF%) measurement and to compare the cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents with or without obesity according to BMI but with a similar BF%.

Methods

A retrospective cross-sectional investigation was conducted including 553 (378 females/175 males) white children and adolescents aged 6-17 years, 197 with normal weight (NW), 144 with overweight (OW) and 212 with obesity (OB) according to BMI. In addition to BMI, BF% measured by air displacement plethysmography, as well as markers of cardiometabolic risk had been determined in the existing cohort.

Results

We found that 7% of subjects considered as NW and 62% of children and adolescents class

SUBMITTER: Zapata JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10476300 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature