Waist circumference percentiles for Hispanic-American children and comparison with other international references

Introduction Waist circumference (WC) constitutes an indirect measurement of central obesity in children and adolescents. Objective To provide percentiles of WC for Hispanic-American children and adolescents, and compare them with other international references. Materials and methods The sample comp...

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Autores: Marrodán, M. Dolores, Román, Estela María, Carmenate, M. M., González Montero de Espinosa, Marisa, Herráez Sánchez, Ángel|||0000-0002-9900-6845, Alfaro Gómez, Emma Laura, Lomaglio, D. B., López-Ejeda, Noemí, Mesa, M. S., Vázquez, V., Méndez de Pérez, B., Meléndez, J. M., Moreno Romero, S., Prado, Consuelo, Dipierri, José Edgardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/59658
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59658
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23496
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Medicina
Medicine
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Sumario:Introduction Waist circumference (WC) constitutes an indirect measurement of central obesity in children and adolescents. Objective To provide percentiles of WC for Hispanic-American children and adolescents, and compare them with other international references. Materials and methods The sample comprised 13 289 healthy children between 6 and 18 years coming from public schools of middle and low socioeconomic levels in different parts of Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. The LMS method to calculate WC percentiles was applied. Sex and age differences were assessed using Student'sttest and ANOVA (SPSS v.21.0). Comparisons were established with references from the United States, Colombia, India, China, Australia, Kuwait, Germany, Tunisia, Greece, and Portugal. Results WC increases with age in both sexes. Boys show higher WC in P3, P50, and P97. Comparison of 50th and 90th percentiles among populations from diverse sociocultural and geographical contexts shows high variability, not all justified by the measurement method. Discussion and conclusions Specific WC percentiles for sex and age, and P90 cut-off points are provided; these values are potentially useful to assess central obesity in Hispanic-American adolescent children.

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