ReviewIrish journal of medical science2015
Methodologies to assess paediatric adiposity.
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- The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in children with overweight or obesity: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
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- Interventions to prevent obesity in Latinx children birth to 6 years globally: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Cardiovascular fitness is associated with child adiposity at 5 years of age: findings from the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2023Trial
- Effects of Oxandrolone on Cardiometabolic Health in Boys With Klinefelter Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2017Trial
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- Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Childhood obesity: The threatening apprentice of the adiposity empire.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
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- Development and validation of anthropometric-based fat-mass prediction equations using air displacement plethysmography in Mexican infants.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Reference values for MRI-derived psoas and paraspinal muscles and macroscopic fat infiltrations in paraspinal muscles in children.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Article
- Metabolomics in early life and the association with body composition at age 2 years.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Characteristics of Body Composition Estimated by Air-Displacement Plethysmography in Chinese Preschool Children.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The longitudinal association between early-life screen viewing and abdominal adiposity-findings from a multiethnic birth cohort study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Relationship between Quantitative Sonographic Measurements and Serum Biochemical Parameters in Childhood Obesity.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2021Article
- Insight into the longitudinal relationship between chronic subclinical inflammation and obesity from adolescence to early adulthood: a dual trajectory analysis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2021Article
- MRI-Derived Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Tissue Reference Values for Children Aged 6 to Under 18 Years.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Body composition parameters can better predict body size dissatisfaction than body mass index in children and adolescents.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Living in High-SES Neighborhoods Is Protective against Obesity among Higher-Income Children but Not Low-Income Children: Results from the Healthy Communities Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionChildhood obesity is associated with increased risk of adult obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Appropriate techniques for assessment of childhood adiposity are required to identify children at risk. The aim of this review was to examine core clinical measurements and more technical tools to assess paediatric adiposity.
methodsThe online databases PubMed, CINALH and EMBASE were searched and the abstracts identified were reviewed to determine appropriate studies. Their reference lists were also searched to identify further eligible studies. Publications were included if they described childhood measurement techniques or involved validation. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: There are many body composition assessment tools available, none of which are direct. Each technique has limitations and a combination of methods may be used. The main clinical techniques are weight, height, body mass index (BMI) and circumferences which provide sufficient information to enable classification of overweight or obesity when growth centile charts and ratios are employed. Further investigation depends on resources available and examiner skill. Skinfold thicknesses are cost-effective but require technical training and only measure subcutaneous fat. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), air displacement plethysmography (ADP), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) are more costly and intensive, requiring the child to remain still for longer periods. DEXA and ADP are capable of accurately measuring adiposity but are unable to distinguish between fat depots. MRI and CT can distinguish intra-abdominal from subcutaneous adiposity and are considered gold standards, but CT is unsuitable for adiposity measurement in children due to high levels of radiation exposure. Ultrasound is a promising technique capable of measuring intra-abdominal adiposity in children but requires further validation.
conclusionThe core clinical measurements of weight, height, BMI and circumferences are sufficient to enable diagnosis of paediatric overweight and obesity while more technical tools provide further insight.
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