Body mass index and skinfold thickness measurements as indicators of obesity in adolescents

Mehru, Neelabh; Ratanoo, Lata; Gupta, P. P.; Gupta, Mukesh Kumar

doi:10.7439/ijbar.v7i5.3267

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“…13 Eyes were pale in 25.4% and 11.8% had flat nails in Shivaprakash and Joseph study in urban area which was higher compared to our study where 19.44% of urban adolescent eyes were pale and 1.67% had flat nails. 10,11 Underweight finding inour study was similar to Deshmukh PR et al (75.3%), less compared to Srinivasan K et al (78.4%), whereas higher than Rao V G et (61.7%) and Pal A et al (48.78%). 6,9,14,15…”

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Assessment of nutritional status of school going adolescents in rural and urban area of north karnataka: A comparative study

Patil¹,

Sinha

Halki³

et al. 2022

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Adolescence is an important stage of growth and development in the lifespan. Unmet nutritional needs lead to several public health problems such as stunted and retarded growth, impaired mental development, anaemia.Assessment and comparison of nutritional status of school going adolescents of rural and urban area and the factors affecting the nutritional status of adolescents.An observational study was conducted among the school going adolescents (10-19 years) studying in government schools in rural and urban area. A pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire was used for socio-demographic profile. Detailed clinical examination including head to toe examination, anthropometry and systemic examination was done to assess the nutritional status.Data was entered in MS Excel and analysed using SPSS and MS Excel. The statistical significance was evaluated at 95% confidence level (p<0.05). Result will be represented in tables.Eyes appeared paler in 27.22% of rural adolescents compared to 19.44% of urban. Overall prevalence of malnutrition among adolescents was 284 (78.89%) i.e.,75.56% in rural and 82.22% in urban area, in which prevalence ofunder-weight was 269 (74.72%) more in urban 137 (76.11%) compared to rural area 132 (73.33%).Prevalence of malnutrition (underweight, overweight and obesity) was more in urban area (76.11%) compared to rural area (73.33%) based on IAP-BMIcriteria.

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Assessment of nutritional status of school going adolescents in rural and urban area of north karnataka: A comparative study

Patil¹,

Sinha

Halki³

et al. 2022

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“…18,19 We found that in all study participants i.e. 24, BMI correlates significantly with triceps skin fold thickness Spearman's r=0.53, p=0.006 which is in accordance with studies done by Mehru et al, Khadilkar et al, Robert et al [20][21][22] However, this finding is not consistent with findings of Rolland et al and Rona et al which showed weak correlation. 23 Among males BMI correlates significantly with triceps skin fold thickness Spearman's r=0.64, p=0.01.…”

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Correlation of body mass index with biceps and triceps skin fold thickness

Chavhan

Chandrachood²

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Body mass index (BMI) and skin fold thickness are independently established methods of nutritional assessment. Present study tries to find out correlation between them.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in private medical college among 2nd year MBBS students. Total 24 students were sampled by purposive sampling method. After obtaining permission from Institutional Ethics committee and written informed consent from participants, study information was gathered using semi structured proforma. Anthropometric measurements were taken using standard techniques and equipments. Data was analysed using Microsoft Excel and Prism version 5.0 and appropriate tests were used considering normality of data.Results: Out of 24 study participants 14 were males and 10 were females. Mean weight was 59.29±12.59 kg, mean height was 164.77±10.28 cm, mean BMI was 21.68±3.18 kg/m2. Mean biceps skin fold thickness was 7.20±2.68 mm and mean triceps skin fold thickness was 10.75±3.33mm. Of all the participants 4 (16.67%) were having underweight BMI, 15 (62.50%) were having normal BMI, 5 (20.83%) were pre-obese. BMI correlated significantly with triceps skin fold thickness Spearman’s r=0.53, p=0.006 as compared to biceps skin fold thickness Spearman’s r=0.36, p=0.07 in complete sample. Among males BMI correlated significantly with triceps skin fold thickness Spearman’s r=0.64, p=0.01 as compared to biceps skin fold thickness.Conclusions: BMI correlates significantly with triceps skin fold thickness as compared to biceps skin fold thickness in general. Significant correlation between BMI and triceps skin fold thickness was found with males as compared to females.

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“…10,11 BMI is a measure of body weight, and therefore doesn't make allowances for increased weight due to muscular development.…”

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School based screening tools for childhood obesity: a comparison of TSFT, WHR and BMI

Mukhopadhyay¹,

Bhattacharjee²,

Joshi³

2017

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Obesity is an emerging health problem in children and adolescents. Various screening tools are there for assessment of nutritional status and this study was done to compare various methods to screen for obesity and overweight in adolescents that can be used during school health check-up.Methods: This study was conducted in the urban schools of Vadodara city. 609 students were included in the study.Results: Maximum students were in the age group of 16-18 year of which 57.9% were males and 42.03 % females. By using BMI, 4.1% students were found to be obese and 12.8% overweight. 10% students had WHR above the cut-off levels. In 11.3% TSFT was above 90th centile.Conclusions: Comparison between the three parameters done using ANNOVA, shows that TSFT is better than BMI in detecting Obesity.

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Body mass index and skinfold thickness measurements as indicators of obesity in adolescents

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Assessment of nutritional status of school going adolescents in rural and urban area of north karnataka: A comparative study

Assessment of nutritional status of school going adolescents in rural and urban area of north karnataka: A comparative study

Correlation of body mass index with biceps and triceps skin fold thickness

School based screening tools for childhood obesity: a comparison of TSFT, WHR and BMI

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