PMID- 16418045
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060310
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0301-4460 (Print)
IS  - 0301-4460 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 6
DP  - 2005 Nov-Dec
TI  - Anthropometry of 5-19-year-old Tongan children with special interest in the high 
      prevalence of obesity among adolescent girls.
PG  - 714-23
AB  - BACKGROUND: Despite much concern about adult obesity among Pacific Islanders, 
      childhood obesity has seldom been investigated. AIM: Based on the anthropometry 
      of Tongan children aged 5-19 years, this study aims to elucidate age and sex 
      differences in obesity prevalence calculated from BMI and its relation to body 
      fat estimated by skinfold thicknesses. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 895 students, aged 
      5-19 years, in the most modernized island and a remote island, were measured for 
      stature, body weight, circumferences at waist, hip and mid-upper arm, and 
      skinfold thicknesses at biceps, triceps and subscapular. The prevalence of 
      overweight and obesity was calculated using the reference data of the 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention (CDC). RESULTS: The prevalence of obesity of Tongan adolescent girls 
      defined by the IOTF and CDC references was 19.4% and 22.8%, respectively, being 
      considerably higher than that of not only juvenile girls but also adolescent 
      boys. Among adolescents, the girls' BMI was positively correlated with fat mass 
      whereas in boys it was not. The sex difference in adolescents was parallel to 
      that in adults, being attributable to gender differences in daily behavioural 
      patterns. CONCLUSIONS: Among Tongan adolescents, obesity prevalence in girls was 
      much higher than in boys, in association with fat accumulation in the former.
FAU - Fukuyama, Shoko
AU  - Fukuyama S
AD  - Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, University of Tokyo, 
      Japan. moe@humeco.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
FAU - Inaoka, Tsukasa
AU  - Inaoka T
FAU - Matsumura, Yasuhiro
AU  - Matsumura Y
FAU - Yamauchi, Taro
AU  - Yamauchi T
FAU - Natsuhara, Kazumi
AU  - Natsuhara K
FAU - Kimura, Ryosuke
AU  - Kimura R
FAU - Ohtsuka, Ryutaro
AU  - Ohtsuka R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Ann Hum Biol
JT  - Annals of human biology
JID - 0404024
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Anthropometry
MH  - *Body Fat Distribution
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Tonga/epidemiology
MH  - Urban Population
EDAT- 2006/01/19 09:00
MHDA- 2006/03/11 09:00
CRDT- 2006/01/19 09:00
PHST- 2006/01/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/03/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/01/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - M6635264041HNKM4 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/03014460500273275 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann Hum Biol. 2005 Nov-Dec;32(6):714-23. doi: 10.1080/03014460500273275.