Arm Circumference-to-Height Ratio as a Situational Alternative to BMI Percentile in Assessing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether arm circumference-to-height ratio (AHtR) predicts adolescents' cardiometabolic risk and how its predictive statistics compare to those of body mass index (BMI) percentile.

Methods

Pooled data for adolescents (N = 12,269, 12-18 years) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, U.S., 1999-2014, were analyzed. For each of the eight cardiometabolic variables, borderline-risk and high-risk were considered unhealthy, and being unhealthy on any variable was considered "unhealthy overall" in terms of cardiometabolic risk. Area under the curve and R ² were used to compare BMI percentile and AHtR for accuracy in predicting risk.

Results

Female AHtR ≥ 0.19 and BMI percentile ≥ 94 and male AHtR ≥ 0.16 and BMI

SUBMITTER: Jayawardene W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6146674 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature