SynthesisNutrients2016
Association between Body Mass Index, Waist-to-Height Ratio and Adiposity in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Validity of non-traditional measures of obesity compared to total body fat across the life course: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Prenatal and childhood exposure to per-/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and its associations with childhood overweight and/or obesity: a systematic review with meta-analyses.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Pooled it
- Parent-Child influences on child eating self-regulation and weight in early childhood: A systematic review.Appetite · 2022Pooled it
- The range of non-traditional anthropometric parameters to define obesity and obesity-related disease in children: a systematic review.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Associations between body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, and high blood pressure among adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Maternal Inflammatory Biomarkers at 28 Weeks of Pregnancy and Childhood Adiposity at Age 7 and 13 Years in the Seychelles Child Development Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2026Article
- Association between trajectories of body mass index and changes in fat free mass index and fat mass index in a cohort of European children. The IDEFICS/I.Family studies.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Trunk-to-limb fat ratio and its relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors in Korean children and adolescents.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2025Article
- Diagnostic performance of anthropometric measurements for identifying obesity in high-altitude pediatric populations: evidence from tibet via bioelectrical impedance analysis.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
- Impact of age, sex, body constitution, and the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical fitness of 38,084 German primary school children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association Between Hyperuricemia, Body Composition, and Comorbidities in an Obese Pediatric Population.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2025Article
- Diabetes mediates an inverted L-shaped association between cardiometabolic index and kidney stones: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2007-2020.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Waist-circumference-to-height-ratio had better longitudinal agreement with DEXA-measured fat mass than BMI in 7237 children.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Risk of Obesity and Unhealthy Central Adiposity in Adolescents Born Preterm With Very Low Birthweight Compared to Term-Born Peers.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2024Article
- Waist-height ratio and body mass index as indicators of obesity and cardiometabolic risk in Korean children and adolescents.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2024Article
- Tri-ponderal mass index and left ventricular hypertrophy in a cohort of caucasian children and adolescents with obesity.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Association between Urinary Sodium Excretion and Body Fat in School-Aged Children: Insights from the ARIA Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults.Lancet (London, England) · 2024Article
- Limitations of BMI z scores for assessing weight change: A clinical tool versus individual risk.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Article
- Centre-based childcare in early childhood and growth in later childhood: a prospective cohort study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Obesity is defined as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) has been suggested as the gold standard to define obesity, but because its use is complex and expensive, anthropometric measures such as body mass index (BMI) or the waist-to-height ratio (WtHr) have been used as alternatives. The aim of this study was to review the published literature and investigate the correlation of BMI and WtHr with body fat (BF) measured by DEXA in pediatric populations. References were sought in PubMed/Medline and Embase datasets. Five original articles, published between 2013 and 2015, were finally included in this review. Their sample size ranged from 83 to 5355, and the age of participants ranged from 4.9 to 19 years old. The most frequently reported association measurements were the coefficients of determination (R²), followed by correlation coefficients and least-squares regression coefficients. BF measured by DEXA was strongly correlated with both BMI (R² ranging from 0.32 to 0.91) and WtHr (R² ranging from 0.49 to 0.73). Thus, either BMI or WtHr may be useful to define obesity when more sophisticated techniques are not available. Our systematic review of the available literature found that neither index demonstrated superiority in assessing obesity in children.
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