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Trial reportBioMed research international2018

Low Diagnostic Accuracy of Body Mass Index-Based and Waist Circumference-Based References of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Identifying Overfat among Chinese Children and Adolescents.

Yiyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Lin Wang

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Trial report in BioMed research international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Revisiting the Global Overfat Pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yiyang ChenShanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2136-0745
Yu ZhangShanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
Lin WangShanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3057-3742

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of body mass index- (BMI-) based and waist circumference- (WC-) based references for childhood overweight and obesity in screening overfat individuals among 2134 Chinese children and adolescents. In this study, overfat status was defined as over 25% body fat for boys and over 30% for girls. Childhood obesity or overweight was defined by four BMI-based references and two WC-based references. All BMI-based references for obesity showed low sensitivity (SE) (0.128-0.473) but high specificity (SP) (0.971-0.998) in detecting overfat individuals in the current population. SE values increased from 0.493 to 0.881 when BMI- and WC-based references for overweight were used to detect overfat individuals. All references for overweight showed high SP rates (0.816-0.966). To improve diagnostic accuracy for childhood obesity, further studies may define a cut-off value for childhood obesity specific for a local population and ethnicity by using health-related overfat data.

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Body Mass IndexWaist CircumferenceAdolescentAdultChildChinaFemaleHumansMaleObesity

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PMID30643805
PMCPMC6311233

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