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Comparison of body mass index, the bioimpedance electric and waist circumference in childhood obesity classification

2019; MedCrave Group; Volume: 9; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15406/aowmc.2019.09.00289

2378-3168

Ana Paula Carvalho Moreira Alves, Liliana Filipa Oliveira Carola, Emilia Manuela Oliveira Barros, Ceomara Palmira Tavares de Pna,

Body Composition Measurement Techniques

Objective: Comparison between BMI methods, PC and BIA in Childhood obesity classification.Methods: Or type of study design it was a Observational Cross-sectional study.Our sample consisted of 95 students from the 4th year of the 1st cycle of basic education of Carvalhal Schools, da Costa, of Gandra, Montes da Costa and gravel pits, the Ermesinde parish.Data were collected on gender, age, weight, height, PC and BIA.In the treatment of the data was used as a statistical tool, the application SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 17.0 for Microsoft Windows®. Results:We found that normal weight was 53 students, 30 were overweight and 12 were obese, according to the cut-off points defined by Cole.According to the body fat percentage, it was found that 53 students they had a normal body fat percentage, 17 had excess fat and 25 had obesity.According to the cut-off points defined by Brown, 23 students had a PC between the 75th and 95th percentiles, which corresponds to overweight students and 23 had a higher percentile PC 95, or obesity. Conclusion:In this study it was observed that the three methods showed the BIA be the method that detected a higher number of children with obesity.Among the three methods used in this study, there was a statistically significant difference (p = 0.016).