Adiposity indices and clinical opinion

Spyckerelle, Y; Guéguen, R; Guillemot, M.; Tosi, E; Deschamps, J. P.

doi:10.1080/03014468800009451

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“…4). It was shown that BMI correlates with total and relative body fat mass [34,35]. As we found an almost normal BMI, we suppose that patients with idiopathic GHD have low total body fat.…”

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Spontaneous Growth in Growth Hormone Deficiency from Birth until 7 Years of Age: Development of Disease-Specific Growth Curves

Mayer¹,

Schimrigk²,

Kapelari

et al. 2010

Horm Res Paediatr

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Background: Little is known about spontaneous growth of growth hormone (GH)-deficient children during infancy and childhood. Methods: Retrospectively, we calculated disease-specific pretreatment percentiles for height, weight, BMI and growth velocity of 113 GH-deficient boys and 41 GH-deficient girls from birth until 7 years of age, by mean and standard deviation. Results: Infants with idiopathic GH deficiency (GHD) grow in disease-specific percentile channels. There is a significant difference in length and weight from birth onward compared to regional reference (p < 0.001). Boys’ birth length was 48.7 ± 2.9 cm (p < 0.001; –1.31 ± 1.11 SDS), birth weight was 3.09 ± 0.61 kg (p < 0.01; –0.92 ± 1.19 SDS), and BMI at birth was 12.9 ± 1.7. Girls’ birth length was 48.1 ± 3.4 cm (p < 0.05; –1.17 ± 1.51 SDS), birth weight was 2.92 ± 0.60 kg (p = 0.05; –1.08 ± 1.19 SDS), and BMI at birth was 12.6 ± 2.2. There was a continuous loss of growth velocity, despite a wide variance in the first years, so height deficit became more evident with increasing age. Conclusion: GHD is a congenital disease no matter when height deficit becomes clinically evident, because GH-deficient children grow in disease-specific percentile channels with a highly significantly reduced length and weight, which demonstrates that GH is essential for adequate growth in infancy and early childhood.

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“…4). It was shown that BMI correlates with total and relative body fat mass [34,35]. As we found an almost normal BMI, we suppose that patients with idiopathic GHD have low total body fat.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 49%

Spontaneous Growth in Growth Hormone Deficiency from Birth until 7 Years of Age: Development of Disease-Specific Growth Curves

Mayer¹,

Schimrigk²,

Kapelari

et al. 2010

Horm Res Paediatr

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“…In an investigation including other approaches such as deviations from weight for height regression in narrow age ranges--a less direct and less easy procedure--the W/H 2 body mass index also fared well (Spyckerelle, Gueguen, Guillemot, Tosi and Deschamps 1988). The problem of the approximation to the normal distribution leads directly to the problem of finding an appropriate transformation to achieve this goal.…”

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Measures of body mass and of obesity from infancy to adulthood and their appropriate transformation

Gasser

Ziegler

Seifert

et al. 1994

Annals of Human Biology

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In this paper we investigate first the choice of an appropriate index of body mass. The traditional indices weight/height (W/H), W/H2 and W/H3 are compared, as well as an approach due to Cole (1986) making the index W/Hp age-dependent, i.e. by allowing the power p to depend on age. While there may be no perfect index reflecting over- and underweight--irrespective of height and width--the Quetelet index W/H2 turned out to be a reasonable index from childhood to adulthood. Second, we study the development of the body mass index W/H2 longitudinally from birth onwards, based on structural average distance, velocity and acceleration curves. As a third topic, transformations for obtaining an approximate normal distribution for W/H2, weight and skinfolds are compared. The usual log-transformation turned out to be unsatisfactory. While for height and arm skinfolds a transformation -1/square root of x performs rather well across age and sex, a transformation -1/x is more appropriate for trunk skinfolds and W/H2.

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“…Anhand von Hautfaltenmessungen, Densitometrie sowie Dual-energy-X-ray-Absorptiometrie (DEXA) konnte gezeigt werden, dass der durch Körperhöhenund Körpergewichtsmessungen bestimmbare Body-mass-Index [BMI= Körpergewicht/Körperhöhe 2 (kg/m 2 )] ein akzeptables Maß für die Gesamtkörperfettmasse darstellt.Sowohl bei Erwachsenen [35] als auch bei Kindern [48] wurde eine hohe Korrelation zwischen BMI und Hautfaltendicke gefunden. Pietrobelli et al [39] stellten mittels DEXA bei 5-bis 19jährigen Jungen und Mädchen eine Korrelation zwischen BMI und prozentualem Anteil der Fettmasse am Körpergewicht (% Fettmasse) in der Größenordnung von 0,79-0,83 fest.Nach Daniels et al [12] variiert die Korrelation zwischen der ebenfalls mittels DEXA bestimmten prozentualen Fettmasse und dem BMI bei Jungen (r≈0,5) und Mädchen (r≈0, 8).Der BMI eignet sich zur Prädiktion des prozentualen Anteils der Fettmasse im oberen Gewichtsbereich besser als im unteren [31,52].…”

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Adiposity indices and clinical opinion

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

Spontaneous Growth in Growth Hormone Deficiency from Birth until 7 Years of Age: Development of Disease-Specific Growth Curves

Spontaneous Growth in Growth Hormone Deficiency from Birth until 7 Years of Age: Development of Disease-Specific Growth Curves

Measures of body mass and of obesity from infancy to adulthood and their appropriate transformation

Perzentile für den Body-mass-Index für das Kindes- und Jugendalter unter Heranziehung verschiedener deutscher Stichproben

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