ArticleDiabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy2020
Classification Accuracy of Body Mass Index for Excessive Body Fatness in Kuwaiti Adolescent Girls and Young Adult Women.
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- Challenges in child and adolescent health across the Arab Gulf countries-Focus on metabolic health.Clinical obesity · 2025Review
- Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the Obese Population in Kuwait: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2024Review
- The relation between prenatal stress, overweight and obesity in children diagnosed according to BMI and percentage fat tissue.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Time trends of overweight and obesity among schoolchildren in Kuwait over a 13-year period (2007-2019): repeated cross-sectional study.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Differences in educational attainment between obese and non-obese Kuwaiti female university students.Journal of nutritional science · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeAdolescent obesity, as defined by BMI, is amongst the highest in the world in Kuwait. This study aimed to determine the extent to which BMI might be underestimating obesity as defined by excessive fatness in Kuwaiti female adolescents and young adults.
methodsA total of 400 apparently healthy Kuwaiti female university students (mean age 18.0 years, SD 0.6) were recruited. Excessive fatness was defined as body fat percentage ≥30, measured using the Tanita model TBF-310 Bio-impedance system with the manufacturer's equation. Obesity was defined as recommended by the WHO in adult participants - those aged ≥19.1 years - as BMI≥30 kg/m
resultsMedian BMI was 27.8 kg/m
conclusionBMI-based measures substantially underestimate the prevalence of excessive fatness in Kuwaiti adolescent females. Obesity is even more prevalent, and requires more urgent attention, than is apparent from BMI-based measures used in most research and national surveys. BMI may also be too crude for use as an exposure or outcome variable in many epidemiological studies of Arab adolescent girls and adult women.
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