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Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison

BACKGROUND: Age- and gender-specific percentiles of body mass index in children and adolescents are a cornerstone categorizing overweight and obesity in youths worldwide. Since corresponding worldwide growth curves of percent body fat (% BF) are missing, the purpose was to contribute smoothed percen...

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Autores principales: Schwandt, Peter, von Eckardstein, Arnold, Haas, Gerda-Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23272283
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description BACKGROUND: Age- and gender-specific percentiles of body mass index in children and adolescents are a cornerstone categorizing overweight and obesity in youths worldwide. Since corresponding worldwide growth curves of percent body fat (% BF) are missing, the purpose was to contribute smoothed percentiles of percentage body fat from a large urban sample of German youths and to include them in actual national and international percentile curves. METHODS: We estimated % BF in 22 113 German youths aged 3 to 18 years participating in yearly cross-sectional surveys of the PEP Family Heart Study Nuremberg between 1993 and 2007. Percentage body fat was calculated from skinfold thickness using Slaughter equations. Ten smoothed percentile curves were constructed for % BF using the LMS method significant. RESULTS: The age- and gender-specific reference curves demonstrate a continuous age-dependent increase of percentage body fat from age 3 to 18 years in girls; whereas in boys, the percentile curves steeply increase from 5 to 11 years and thereafter slightly decrease. The shape of the percentile curves, the maxima among boys at puberty and the median % BF at age 18 years are consistent with most of the current growth curves. % BF in urban studies seems to be lower than in national surveys . CONCLUSIONS: More than these nine studies should contribute to worldwide-standardized growth charts for % BF to better define overweight and obesity in youth.
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spelling pubmed-35303022012-12-27 Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison Schwandt, Peter von Eckardstein, Arnold Haas, Gerda-Maria Int J Prev Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Age- and gender-specific percentiles of body mass index in children and adolescents are a cornerstone categorizing overweight and obesity in youths worldwide. Since corresponding worldwide growth curves of percent body fat (% BF) are missing, the purpose was to contribute smoothed percentiles of percentage body fat from a large urban sample of German youths and to include them in actual national and international percentile curves. METHODS: We estimated % BF in 22 113 German youths aged 3 to 18 years participating in yearly cross-sectional surveys of the PEP Family Heart Study Nuremberg between 1993 and 2007. Percentage body fat was calculated from skinfold thickness using Slaughter equations. Ten smoothed percentile curves were constructed for % BF using the LMS method significant. RESULTS: The age- and gender-specific reference curves demonstrate a continuous age-dependent increase of percentage body fat from age 3 to 18 years in girls; whereas in boys, the percentile curves steeply increase from 5 to 11 years and thereafter slightly decrease. The shape of the percentile curves, the maxima among boys at puberty and the median % BF at age 18 years are consistent with most of the current growth curves. % BF in urban studies seems to be lower than in national surveys . CONCLUSIONS: More than these nine studies should contribute to worldwide-standardized growth charts for % BF to better define overweight and obesity in youth. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3530302/ /pubmed/23272283 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Preventive Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haas, Gerda-Maria
Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison
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title_fullStr Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison
title_full_unstemmed Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison
title_short Percentiles of Percentage Body Fat in German Children and Adolescents: An International Comparison
title_sort percentiles of percentage body fat in german children and adolescents: an international comparison
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23272283
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