Reference values for body composition in healthy urban Mexican children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Given the increasing incidence of chronic degenerative diseases related to changes in tissues, the availability of diagnostic tools with greater accuracy in the estimation of body composition (BC) has become necessary. Interpreting the BC values of individuals requires reference data obtained from a healthy population with the same ethnicity, to identify individuals at risk for the development of negative health outcomes.

Objective

Generate reference values (RV) of body composition (BC) for Mexican children and adolescents.

Methods

This was an urban-population-based cross-sectional study of healthy Mexican children and adolescents. BC estimations by anthropometry, multifrequency bioimpedance analysis (MF-BIA) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) whe

SUBMITTER: Desiree LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11537948 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature