Total Body Fat Content versus BMI in 4-Year-Old Healthy Swedish Children
Joint Authors
Forsum, Elisabet
Henriksson, Hanna
Flinke Carlsson, Eva
Löf, Marie
Henriksson, Pontus
Source
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-4, 4 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-03-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Childhood overweight and obesity, a worldwide problem, is generally identified using BMI (body mass index).
However, this application of BMI has been little investigated in children below 5 years of age due to a lack of appropriate methods to assess body composition.
Therefore, we used air displacement plethysmography (ADP) to study 4.4-year old boys and girls since this method is accurate in young children if they accept the requirements of the measurement.
The purpose was to analyze the relationship between BMI and body fat in these children.
Body composition was assessed in 76 (43 boys, 33 girls) of the 84 children brought to the measurement session.
Boys and girls contained 25.2±4.7 and 26.8±4.0% body fat, respectively.
BMI-based cut-offs for overweight could not effectively identify children with a high body fat content.
There was a significant (P<0.001) but weak (r=0.39) correlation between BMI and body fat (%).
In conclusion, requirements associated with a successful assessment of body composition by means of ADP were accepted by most 4-year-olds.
Furthermore, BMI-based cut-offs for overweight did not effectively identify children with a high body fatness and BMI explained only a small proportion of the variation in body fat (%) in this age group.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Forsum, Elisabet& Flinke Carlsson, Eva& Henriksson, Hanna& Henriksson, Pontus& Löf, Marie. 2013. Total Body Fat Content versus BMI in 4-Year-Old Healthy Swedish Children. Journal of Obesity،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Forsum, Elisabet…[et al.]. Total Body Fat Content versus BMI in 4-Year-Old Healthy Swedish Children. Journal of Obesity No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-4.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Forsum, Elisabet& Flinke Carlsson, Eva& Henriksson, Hanna& Henriksson, Pontus& Löf, Marie. Total Body Fat Content versus BMI in 4-Year-Old Healthy Swedish Children. Journal of Obesity. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-454470