ReviewAnnals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism2015
Body mass index and body composition scaling to height in children and adolescent.
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- Application of a Body Shape Index as an Anthropometric Predictor of Cardiometabolic Risks in Children and Adolescents (Systematic Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions in the first 1000 days to prevent childhood obesity: a systematic review and quantitative content analysis.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Fat-free/lean body mass in children with insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
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- Clinical characteristics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with sarcopenia in children: a case-control study.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Nutritional status and associated factors among adolescents in Senegal: a nationwide cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Comparison of adult height prediction using bone age and body composition for growth assessment in Korean children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- zBMI scales with multispectral alterations in the neural oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory in youth.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- An 8-week exergame-based exercise training program improves cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance performances among primary school children in Taiwan.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Changes in Body Mass Index during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Indonesian Adolescents: The Role of Sex, Urban Area, Baseline BMI, and Appetitive Traits.Obesity facts · 2025Article
- Interplay between preclinical indices of obesity and neural signatures of fluid intelligence in youth.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Investigation of Underlying Association between Anthropometric and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Markers among Overweight and Obese Adolescents in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- MULT: An allometric body mass index (ABMI) reference to assess nutritional status of multiethnic children and adolescents.PloS one · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Physical-Literacy-Based Online Education on Indices of Physical Fitness in High-School Adolescents: Intervention Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic Period.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Unhealthy Dietary Patterns and Their Associations with Sociodemographic Factors as Predictors among Underweight and Overweight Adolescents in Southern Thailand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Associations Between Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Depressive Symptomatology in Adolescents: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study.Journal of physical activity & health · 2023Observational
- Smoothened percentiles for height, weight and body mass index of urban school going adolescents aged 11-17 years in national capital territory region of Delhi, India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
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- Associations Between Body Composition, Leptin, and Vitamin D Varied by the Body Fat Percentage in Adolescents.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Childhood obesity prevalence has been increased and known to be related to various diseases and mortality in adult and body mass index (BMI) has been widely used as a screening tool in children with obesity. It is important to understand what BMI is and its limitations. BMI is a measure of weight adjusted for height. Weight scales to height with a power of about 2, is the basis of BMI (weight/height(2)) as the scaling of body weight to height across adults provides powers rounded to 2. BMI has the advantage of a simple and noninvasive surrogate measure of body fat, but it has limitation in differentiating body fat from lean (fat free) mass and low-moderate sensitivity is problematic for clinical applications. Among overweight children higher BMI levels can be a result of increased either fat or fat-free mass. BMI could be divided into fat-free mass index and fat mass index. Monitoring of the changes in body composition is important as distinguishing changes in each component occur with rapid growth in adolescents as it is occur in concert with changes in the hormonal environment. Reference values for each body composition indexes and chart created with selected percentiles of a normal adolescent population could be helpful in growth assessment and health risk evaluation.
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