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Excellent Intra and Inter-Observer Reproducibility of Wrist Circumference Measurements in Obese Children and Adolescents.
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- The discriminatory ability of wrist and neck circumference in predicting insulin resistance in overweight and obese children.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025Article
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- Wrist circumference is a biomarker of adipose tissue dysfunction and cardiovascular risk in children with obesity.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2020Article
- Association of Anthropometric Indices With Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN-V Study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- Wrist circumference is associated with increased systolic blood pressure in children with overweight/obesity.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2018Article
- Wrist Circumference and Frame Size Percentiles in 6-17-Year-Old Turkish Children and Adolescents in Kayseri.Journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology · 2017Article
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Abstract
In a previous study, we found that wrist circumference, in particular its bone component, was associated with insulin resistance in a population of overweight/obese children. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the intra- and inter-operator variability in wrist circumference measurement in a population of obese children and adolescents. One hundred and two (54 male and 48 female) obese children and adolescents were consecutively enrolled. In all subjects wrist circumferences were measured by two different operators two times to assess intra- and inter-operator variability. Statistical analysis was performed using SAS v.9.4 and JMP v.12. Measurements of wrist circumference showed excellent inter-operator reliability with Intra class Correlation Coefficients (ICC) of 0.96 and ICC of 0.97 for the first and the second measurement, respectively. The intra-operator reliability was, also, very strong with a Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC) of 0.98 for both operators. The high reproducibility demonstrated in our results suggests that wrist circumference measurement, being safe, non-invasive and repeatable can be easily used in out-patient settings to identify youths with increased risk of insulin-resistance. This can avoid testing the entire population of overweight/obese children for insulin resistance parameters.
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