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Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Obesity, particularly childhood obesity is common in the Middle East, but no studies have examined the relationship of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) or abdominal height to conventional markers of obesity in this region. This is the first study to document the associati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20427937 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62835 |
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author | Al-Daghri, Nasser Alokail, Majed Al-Attas, Omar Sabico, Shaun Kumar, Sudhesh |
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description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Obesity, particularly childhood obesity is common in the Middle East, but no studies have examined the relationship of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) or abdominal height to conventional markers of obesity in this region. This is the first study to document the association of SAD with measures of obesity among Arab children and adolescents. METHODS: Nine hundred sixty-four Saudi children aged 5-17 years (365 prepubertal, including 146 boys and 219 girls; 249 pubertal, including 125 boys and 124 girls; and 350 postpubertal, including 198 boys and 152 girls) were included in this cross-sectional study. RESULTS: SAD was significantly correlated with indices of obesity regardless of gender, but was strongest among pubertal boys. The cut-off values were as follows: for prepubertal children, 14 cm (equivalent to 50th percentile among girls and 60th percentile among boys); for pubertal children, 15 cm for girls (30th percentile) and 16 cm for boys (50th percentile), and for postpubertal, 21.5 cm for girls (70th percentile) and 22 cm for boys (80th percentile). CONCLUSION: SAD is a reliable indicator of visceral obesity among Arab children and adolescents in particular. Prospective studies should be done to determine whether such an association translates to a promising risk factor for hard endpoints such as diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-28868712010-07-02 Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents Al-Daghri, Nasser Alokail, Majed Al-Attas, Omar Sabico, Shaun Kumar, Sudhesh Ann Saudi Med Original Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Obesity, particularly childhood obesity is common in the Middle East, but no studies have examined the relationship of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) or abdominal height to conventional markers of obesity in this region. This is the first study to document the association of SAD with measures of obesity among Arab children and adolescents. METHODS: Nine hundred sixty-four Saudi children aged 5-17 years (365 prepubertal, including 146 boys and 219 girls; 249 pubertal, including 125 boys and 124 girls; and 350 postpubertal, including 198 boys and 152 girls) were included in this cross-sectional study. RESULTS: SAD was significantly correlated with indices of obesity regardless of gender, but was strongest among pubertal boys. The cut-off values were as follows: for prepubertal children, 14 cm (equivalent to 50th percentile among girls and 60th percentile among boys); for pubertal children, 15 cm for girls (30th percentile) and 16 cm for boys (50th percentile), and for postpubertal, 21.5 cm for girls (70th percentile) and 22 cm for boys (80th percentile). CONCLUSION: SAD is a reliable indicator of visceral obesity among Arab children and adolescents in particular. Prospective studies should be done to determine whether such an association translates to a promising risk factor for hard endpoints such as diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2886871/ /pubmed/20427937 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62835 Text en © Annals of Saudi Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Al-Daghri, Nasser Alokail, Majed Al-Attas, Omar Sabico, Shaun Kumar, Sudhesh Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title | Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title_full | Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title_fullStr | Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title_short | Establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among Arab children and adolescents |
title_sort | establishing abdominal height cut-offs and their association with conventional indices of obesity among arab children and adolescents |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20427937 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0256-4947.62835 |
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