PMID- 23818795
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130703
LR  - 20240420
IS  - 1178-220X (Print)
IS  - 1178-220X (Electronic)
IS  - 1178-220X (Linking)
VI  - 3
DP  - 2009
TI  - Body Fat Percentages by Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Corresponding to Body 
      Mass Index Cutoffs for Overweight and Obesity in Indian Children.
PG  - 55-61
AB  - BACKGROUND: Indians are suspected to have higher body fat percent at a given body 
      mass index (BMI) than their western counterparts. OBJECTIVE: To estimate percent 
      body fat in apparently healthy Indian children and adolescents by dual-energy 
      X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and explore linkages of BMI with body fat percent for 
      better health risk assessment. METHODS: Age, weight, height of 316 boys and 250 
      girls (6-17 years) were recorded. Body composition was measured by dual-energy 
      X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). High adiposity was defined as body fat percent (BF%) 
      > McCarthy's 85th percentile of body fat reference data. Receiver operating 
      characteristic analysis (ROC) was carried out for CDC BMI Z score for it's 
      ability to judge excess fatness. RESULTS: High BF% was seen in 38.5% boys and 
      54.0% girls (p < 0.05). Percentage of obese children as defined by the BMI 
      cutoffs of International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) (2.1% for boys and 6.9% for 
      girls) was lower than that using Indian (13.7% for boys and 20.9% for girls) and 
      CDC (14.1% for boys and 20.9% for girls) cutoffs. The point closest to one on the 
      ROC curves of CDC BMI Z-scores indicated high adiposity at BMI cutoff of 22 at 
      the age of 17 yr in both the genders. CONCLUSIONS: Higher body fat percentage is 
      associated with lower BMI values in Indian children.
FAU - Pandit, Deepa
AU  - Pandit D
AD  - Agharkar Research Institute, Agarakar Road, Pune, India.
FAU - Chiplonkar, Shashi
AU  - Chiplonkar S
FAU - Khadilkar, Anuradha
AU  - Khadilkar A
FAU - Khadilkar, Vaman
AU  - Khadilkar V
FAU - Ekbote, Veena
AU  - Ekbote V
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20091130
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - Clin Med Pediatr
JT  - Clinical medicine. Pediatrics
JID - 101514106
PMC - PMC3676297
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - BMI
OT  - children
OT  - lunar DXA
OT  - overweight
OT  - percent body fat
EDAT- 2009/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2009/01/01 00:01
PMCR- 2009/11/30
CRDT- 2013/07/03 06:00
PHST- 2013/07/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2009/11/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - cped-3-2009-055 [pii]
AID - 10.4137/cmped.s3446 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Clin Med Pediatr. 2009 Nov 30;3:55-61. doi: 10.4137/cmped.s3446. Print 2009.