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  • Ethnic differences in the relationship between body mass index and percentage body fat among Asian children from different backgrounds

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    Liu, Ailing
    M. Byrne, Nuala
    Kagawa, Masaharu
    Ma, Guansheng
    Poh, Bee Koon
    Ismail, Mohammad Noor
    Kijboonchoo, Kallaya
    Nasreddine, Lara
    Trinidad, Trinidad Palad
    P. Hills, Andrew
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hills, Andrew
    Year published
    2011
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    Overweight and obesity in Asian children are increasing at an alarming rate; therefore a better understanding of the relationship between BMI and percentage body fat (%BF) in this population is important. A total of 1039 children aged 8-10 years, encompassing a wide BMI range, were recruited from China, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Philippines and Thailand. Body composition was determined using the 2H dilution technique to quantify total body water and subsequently fat mass, fat-free mass and %BF. Ethnic differences in the BMI-%BF relationship were found; for example, %BF in Filipino boys was approximately 2% lower than in their ...
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    Overweight and obesity in Asian children are increasing at an alarming rate; therefore a better understanding of the relationship between BMI and percentage body fat (%BF) in this population is important. A total of 1039 children aged 8-10 years, encompassing a wide BMI range, were recruited from China, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Philippines and Thailand. Body composition was determined using the 2H dilution technique to quantify total body water and subsequently fat mass, fat-free mass and %BF. Ethnic differences in the BMI-%BF relationship were found; for example, %BF in Filipino boys was approximately 2% lower than in their Thai and Malay counterparts. In contrast, Thai girls had approximately 2簥 higher %BF values than in their Chinese, Lebanese, Filipino and Malay counterparts at a given BMI. However, the ethnic difference in the BMI-%BF relationship varied by BMI. Compared with Caucasian children of the same age, Asian children had 3-6 units lower BMI at a given %BF. Approximately one-third of the obese Asian children (%BF above 25% for boys and above 30% for girls) in the study were not identified using the WHO classification and more than half using the International Obesity Task Force classification. Use of the Chinese classification increased the sensitivity. Results confirmed the necessity to consider ethnic differences in body composition when developing BMI cut-points and other obesity criteria in Asian children.
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    Journal Title
    British Journal of Nutrition
    Volume
    106
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114511001681
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 The Authors. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine not elsewhere classified
    Animal Production
    Food Sciences
    Nutrition and Dietetics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44244
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