Evaluation of obesity by body mass index,waist-hip-ratio and percentage body fat in adolescent

VernacularTitle:体质量指数、腰臀比、体脂百分率评价青少年肥胖的研究
Author: Hong WANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: adolescent; obesity; body mass index; waist-hip ratio; percentage body fat
From: Chongqing Medicine 2014;(34):4637-4639,4642
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To compare the sensitivity of body mass index (BMI),waist-hip ratio (WHR)and percentage body fat (PBF)in the evaluation of the obese adolescents population,and find a more sensitive evaluation method.Methods In this study,2 045 adolescents were recruited in the city of Chongqing by using multiple-stage random cluster sampling,and they were identified as overweight or obesity on the base of BMI,WHR and PBF.Results There was significant difference among the detection rate of the three methods (P<0.05),the detection rate of PBF was the highest (12.9%),then BMI (7.2%)and WHR (6.0%).consistency test showed that the concordance of three methods was poor and Kappa (BMI and WHR)=0.199,Kappa (BMI and PBF )=0.441,Kappa (WHR and PBF)=0.187;comprehensive evaluation was chosen as the gold standard and compared with three meth-ods respectively by ROC curve,the analysis showed that area under curve (AVC):PBF(0.954)>BMI(0.918)>WHR (0.694). Conclusion The sensitivity of PBF and BMI was higher.Although the WHR sensitivity was lower,WHR is a good predictor asso-ciated for chronic diseases,which suggests that the development of appropriate adolescent WHR standard is necessary.