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Effective Screening Test for Obesity in Obese Adolescents and the Correlation Among Obesity Index, Body Mass Index and Serum Lipid Profile  

Sung, Tae Jung (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inha University)
Kim, Dal Hyun (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inha University)
Hong, Young Jin (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inha University)
Son, Byong Kwan (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inha University)
Chang, Kyung Ja (Department of Food and Nutrition, Inha University)
Park, Jun Young (Korea Association of Health Promotion)
Kim, Soon Ki (Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Inha University)
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Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics / v.46, no.3, 2003 , pp. 217-223 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose : Every year, there is a remarkable increase in the prevalence of children with excess body fat. The aim of this study is to find a useful screening method in assessing adolescent, obesity and to specify the predictable risk factors that are related to adult cardiovascular disease according to BMI and obesity index. Methods : From July to November in 2001, a total of 2,814(male : female=2,011 : 803) mid to high school students who were in the obesity range according to obesity index(>20%) were evaluated according to height, weight, body mass index(BMI), obesity index, and serum lipid levels. Results : Among the obese students over 20% by obesity index, 86.6% were over the range of 95 percentile by BMI. Among students defined as obese by BMI, 21.0% of males and 21.4% of females students had hypercholesterolemia; by obesity index, the ratio was 20.7% male and 19.0% female. The frequency of hypertriglyceremia in male students was 15.0% in group I(overweight group, 85P97p); in female students 11.8%, 20.7% and 28.2% respectively. Conclusion : In this study, using BMI alone to test the serum lipid level in adolescent obesity had a limit of 10.0-17.0% omission. Therefore using obesity index as a screening method to find the adult cardiovascular disease would rather reduce the omission rate. The risk factor of cardiovascular disease according to BMI was the increasing level of triglyceride in both male and female students. We think that using the obesity index has more rationale rather than BMI in assessing lipid profiles.
Keywords
Obesity index; Body mass index(BMI); Serum lipid profile;
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