BMI-based obesity cutoffs and excess adiposity in a Caribbean adolescent population of African origin

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic utility of recommended body mass index (BMI)-based classification systems in detecting excess body fat (BF) in an Afro-Caribbean adolescent population. Subjects: All adolescents aged 12-18 years were invited to participate in the study. A total of 3749 persons p...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of clinical nutrition 2009-02, Vol.63 (2), p.253-258
Hauptverfasser:	Nichols, S.D, Cadogan, F
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	accuracy Adipose Tissue Adiposity - ethnology Adolescent adolescent nutrition Adolescents African Caribbeans African Continental Ancestry Group Area Under Curve Biological and medical sciences Blacks Body fat Body Mass Index Body Size boys Child Classification systems Clinical Nutrition Confidence intervals Demographic aspects Disease control disease prevalence Electric Impedance Epidemiology Feeding. Feeding behavior Female Females Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology girls Health aspects Humans Internal Medicine Likelihood ratio Male Males Medical diagnosis Medical sciences Medicine Medicine & Public Health Metabolic Diseases Minority & ethnic groups Obesity Obesity - diagnosis Obesity - ethnology original-article Physiological aspects Prevalence Public Health Reference Values Reproducibility of Results screening Sensitivity Sensitivity and Specificity Sex Factors Skinfold Thickness Teenagers Trinidad and Tobago Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems waist circumference Youth
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