Associations of cardiometabolic outcomes with indices of obesity in children aged 5 years and younger.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood obesity is a world-wide concern due to its growing prevalence and association with cardiometabolic risk factors in childhood and subsequent adult cardiovascular disease. In young pre-school children, there is uncertainty regarding which of the commonly used anthropometric measures of childhood obesity is best associated with cardiometabolic risk factors. This study compared the utility of common measures used in identifying obesity in these young children.

Methods

The four commonly used metrics for identifying obesity in children: body fat percentage ≥ 90th percentile, waist circumference ≥ 90th percentile, BMI z score > 2 SD and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) ≥ 0.5, were measured in a cohort of children born singleton, at full term and followed from birth

SUBMITTER: Teo KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611590 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature