ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Body phenotypes and sexual maturation in Brazilian and US adolescents: evidence for a change in BMI category.
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- Skeletal Maturity in Adolescence: Evaluating Bone Development and Age Metrics.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Accuracy of the international growth charts to diagnose obesity according to the body composition analysis in US children and adolescents.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- MULT: An allometric body mass index (ABMI) reference to assess nutritional status of multiethnic children and adolescents.PloS one · 2024Article
- Age-, sex-, and maturity-associated variation in the phase angle after adjusting for size in adolescents.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveOur study aimed to describe body phenotypes (BP) estimated by multivariate analysis and their association with body mass.
designBP were defined based on demographic variables, anthropometric data (body mass, height, skinfolds and circumferences), body composition (phase angle measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis), biochemical parameters (TAG, glucose, total cholesterol ratio/LDL, Hb and sexual maturation (pubic hair and breasts or gonads). ANOVA was performed to verify the differences between skin colour and the stages of pubertal development, BP, body composition, anthropometric and biochemical variables.
settingCities of São Paulo-SP, Piracicaba-SP and Florianópolis-SC from Brazil and the United States.
participants9269 adolescents aged between 10 and 15 years old.
resultsThe composition of BP was similar in all surveys, which are: BP1 was composed by skinfolds, body mass and circumferences variables; BP2 by pubic hair, breast in girls or gonad in boys, height and age; BP3 by cholesterol, TAG and glucose; and BP4 by phase angle, Hb and glucose (negative loading). There was a strong correlation (r = 0·9, P < 0·001) between BP1 and BMI.
conclusionWe highlighted independence observed between biochemical parameters, anthropometry, body composition and sexual maturation. BP may support the calculation of scores for diagnosis of obesity based on anthropometric variables and overcome ambiguity in the isolated use of BMI.
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