ArticleNutrients2018
Tri-Ponderal Mass Index vs. Fat Mass/Height³ as a Screening Tool for Metabolic Syndrome Prediction in Colombian Children and Young People.
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- Tri-Ponderal Mass Index as a Screening Tool for Identifying Body Fat and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Pooled it
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- Metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents: definitions, epidemiology, pathophysiology, interventions, and challenges.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- From BMI to TMI: revisiting adiposity and fitness assessment in young active adults through a historical and contemporary lens.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- [Body mass index and triponderal index in abnormal uterine bleed].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2023Observational
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- Criteria in the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in Children: A Scoping Review.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2023Article
- Temporal Associations between Tri-Ponderal Mass Index and Blood Pressure in Chinese Children: A Cross-Lag Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Article
- A Multivariate Analysis of "Metabolic Phenotype" Patterns in Children and Adolescents with Obesity for the Early Stratification of Patients at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The triponderal mass index as a measure of adiposity in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Predictive Ability of the Estimate of Fat Mass to Detect Early-Onset Metabolic Syndrome in Prepubertal Children with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- "Fitness and Fatness" in Children and Adolescents: An Italian Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Physical Fitness in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis on the Level of Alignment with Multiple Adiposity Indexes.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sex-Specific Differences in the Relationship between Insulin Resistance and Adiposity Indexes in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Tri-ponderal Mass Index is associated with adiposity in adolescent type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Leptin is Associated with the Tri-Ponderal Mass Index in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2021Article
- Tri-Ponderal Mass Index Reference Values for Screening Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Results From Two National-Representative Cross-Sectional Studies in China and America.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Different Adiposity Indices and Association with Metabolic Syndrome Risk in Obese Children: Is there a Winner?International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Normal-Weight Obesity Is Associated with Increased Cardiometabolic Risk in Young Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Role of tri-ponderal mass index in cardio-metabolic risk assessment in children and adolescents: compared with body mass index.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Tri-ponderal mass index (TMI) and fat mass index (FMI) have been proposed as alternative approaches for assessing body fat since BMI does not ensure an accurate screening for obesity and overweight status in children and adolescents. This study proposes thresholds of the TMI and FMI for the prediction of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and young people. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 4673 participants (57.1% females), who were 9-25 years of age. As part of the study, measurements of the subjects' weight, waist circumference, serum lipid indices, blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose were taken. Body composition was measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). The TMI and FMI were calculated as weight (kg)/height (m³) and fat mass (kg)/height (m³), respectively. Following the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition, MetS is defined as including three or more metabolic abnormalities. Cohort-specific thresholds were established to identify Colombian children and young people at high risk of MetS. The thresholds were applied to the following groups: (i) a cohort of children where the girls' TMI ≥ 12.13 kg/m³ and the boys' TMI ≥ 12.10 kg/m³; (ii) a cohort of adolescents where the girls' TMI ≥ 12.48 kg/m³ and the boys' TMI ≥ 11.19 kg/m³; (iii) a cohort of young adults where the women's TMI ≥ 13.21 kg/m³ and the men's TMI ≥ 12.19 kg/m³. The FMI reference cut-off values used for the different groups were as follows: (i) a cohort of children where the girls' FMI ≥ 2.59 fat mass/m³ and the boys' FMI ≥ 1.98 fat mass/m³; (ii) a cohort of adolescents where the girls' FMI ≥ 3.12 fat mass/m³ and the boys' FMI ≥ 1.46 fat mass/m³; (iii) a cohort of adults where the women's FMI ≥ 3.27 kg/m³ and the men's FMI ≥ 1.65 kg/m³. Our results showed that the FMI and TMI had a moderate discriminatory power to detect MetS in Colombian children, adolescents, and young adults.
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