Abstract:Reliable but accessible measures to capture body composition are highly important as the world is under an obesity-increase era. The most used measure, the body mass index (BMI), nevertheless, has been pointed as non-reliable to estimate body fat percentage (BF%). The present manuscript assessed the criticisms of BMI as a predictor of BF% and the BMI-based categories of nutritional status. Methods: 4164 children/adolescents from 9 to 18 years of age from Porto Velho, Brazil had their anthropometric and skinfol… Show more
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