Ethnic differences in the relationship between body mass index and percentage body fat among Asian children from different backgrounds

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1390-1397

  Liu, Ailing ^a,b   Byrne, Nuala M ^b   Kagawa, Masaharu ^c   Ma, Guansheng ^a   Poh, Bee Koon ^d   Ismail, Mohammad Noor ^d   Kijboonchoo, Kallaya ^e   Nasreddine, Lara ^f   Trinidad, Trinidad Palad ^g   Hills, Andrew P ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^g FOOD AND NUTRITION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Asian children; Body composition; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAT FREE MASS; FAT MASS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEBANON; MALAYSIA; MALE; OBESITY; PHILIPPINES; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THAILAND;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FLUID COMPARTMENTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80055051698     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511001681     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. World Health Organization (2004) Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies. Lancet 363, 157-163.
2. Deurenberg P, Yap M & van Staveren WA (1998) Body mass index and percent body fat: a meta analysis among different ethnic groups. Int J Obes 22, 1164-1171. (Pubitemid 28548536)
3. Gurrici S, Hartriyanti Y, Hautvast J, et al. (1998) Relationship between body fat and body mass index: differences between Indonesians and Dutch Caucasians. Eur J Clin Nutr 52, 779-783. (Pubitemid 28512851)
4. Wang J, Thornton JC, Russell M, et al. (1994) Asians have lower-body mass index (BMI) but higher percent body-fat than do whites-comparisons of anthropometric measurements. Am J Clin Nutr 60, 23-28. (Pubitemid 24215749)
5. Daniels SR, Khoury PR & Morrison JA (1997) The utility of body mass index as a measure of body fatness in children and adolescents: differences by race and gender. Pediatrics 99, 804-807. (Pubitemid 27231351)
6. Going S, Nichols J, Loftin M, et al. (2006) Validation of bio-electrical impedance analysis (BIA) for estimation of body composition in black, white and Hispanic adolescent girls. Int J Body Compos Res 4, 161-167.
7. Freedman D, Wang J, Thornton J, et al. (2008) Racial/ethnic differences in body fatness among children and adolescents. Obesity (Silver Spring) 16, 1105-1111. (Pubitemid 351620472)
8. Deurenberg P, Deurenberg-Yap M, Foo LF, et al. (2003) Differences in body composition between Singapore Chinese, Beijing Chinese and Dutch children. Eur J Clin Nutr 57, 405-409. (Pubitemid 36395671)
9. Mehta S, Mahajan D, Steinbeck KS, et al. (2002) Relationship between measures of fatness, lipids and ethnicity in a cohort of adolescent boys. Ann Nutr Metab 46, 192-199. (Pubitemid 36151262)
10. Navder KP, He Q, Zhang X, et al. (2009) Relationship between body mass index and adiposity in prepubertal children: ethnic and geographic comparisons between New York City and Jinan City (China). J Appl Physiol 107, 488-493.
11. Rush EC, Scraqq R, Schaaf D, et al. (2009) Indices of fatness and relationships with age, ethnicity and lipids in New Zealand European, Māori and Pacific children. Eur J Clin Nutr 63, 627-633.
12. He Q, Horlick M, Thornton J, et al. (2004) Sex-specific fat distribution is not linear across pubertal groups in a multiethnic study. Obes Res 12, 725-733. (Pubitemid 41132518)
13. Guo S, Chumlea W, Roche A, et al. (1997) Age-and maturity-related changes in body composition during adolescence into adulthood: The Fels Longitudinal Study. Int J Obes 21, 1167-1175. (Pubitemid 27511492)
14. Deurenberg-Yap M, Schmidt G, van Staveren WA, et al. (2000) The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore. Int Obes Relat Metab Disord 24, 1011-1017. (Pubitemid 30618121)
15. Cole T, Bellizzi M, Flegal K, et al. (2000) Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey. BMJ (Clin Res Ed) 320, 1-6.
16. de Onis M, Onyango AW, Borghi E, et al. (2007) Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents. Bull World Health Organ 85, 660-667. (Pubitemid 47416716)
17. Group of China Obesity Task Force (2004) Body mass index reference norm for screening overweight and obesity in Chinese children and adolescents. Chin J Epidemiol 25, 97-102.
18. Tanner J & Whitehouse R (1976) Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty. Arch Dis Child 51, 170-179.
19. Lohman TG (1986) Applicability of body composition techniques and constants for children and youths. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 14, 325-357.
20. Tabachnick BG & Fidell LS (2007) Using Multivariate Statistics, 5th ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.
21. Garrow JS & Webster JD (1985) Quetelets's index (W/H2) as a measure of fatness. Int J Obes 9, 147-153. (Pubitemid 15043191)
22. Kagawa M, Kerr D, Uchida H, et al. (2006) Differences in the relationship between BMI and percentage body fat between Japanese and Australian-Caucasian young men. Br J Nutr 95, 1002-1007. (Pubitemid 43805389)
23. Williams DP, Going SB, Lohman TG, et al. (1992) Body fatness and risk for elevated blood pressure, total cholesterol, and serum lipoprotein ratios in children and adolescents. Am J Public Health 82, 358-363.
24. Deurenberg P, Weststrate J & Seidell J (1991) Body mass index as a measure of body fatness: age-and sex-specific prediction formulas. Br J Nutr 65, 105-114.
25. Duncan JS, Duncan EK & Schofield G (2009) Accuracy of body mass index (BMI) thresholds for predicting excess body fat in girls from five ethnicities. Asia Pacific J Clin Nutr 18, 404-411.
26. Deurenberg-Yap M, Schmidt G, van Staveren WA, et al. (2000) The paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24, 1011-1017. (Pubitemid 30618121)
27. Gurrici S, Hartriyanti Y, Hautvast J, et al. (1999) Differences in the relationship between body fat and body mass index between two different Indonesian ethnic groups: the effect of body build. Eur J Clin Nutr 53, 468-472. (Pubitemid 29290362)
28. Fernández JR, Heo MS, Heymsfield SB, et al. (2003) Is percentage body fat differentially related to body mass index in Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and European Americans? Am J Clin Nutr 77, 71-75. (Pubitemid 36015375)
29. Wang WC & Bachrach LK (1996) Validity of the body mass index as an indicator of adiposity in an ethnically diverse population of youths. Am J Hum Biol 8, 641-651. (Pubitemid 126479398)
30. Swinburn BA, Ley SJ, Carmichael HE, et al. (1999) Body size and composition in Polynesians. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 23, 1178-1183.
31. Freedman DS & Sherry B (2009) The validity of BMI as an indicator of body fatness and risk among children. Pediatrics 124, S23-S34.
32. Deurenberg P, Deurenberg-Yap M & Guricci S (2002) Asians are different from Caucasans and from each other in their body mass index/body fat per cent relationship. Obes Res 3, 141-146. (Pubitemid 34815232)
33. Chang CJ, Wu CH, Chang CS, et al. (2003) Low body mass index but high percent body fat in Taiwanese subjects: implications of obesity cutoffs. Int J Obes 27, 253-259.
34. Chung SC, Song MY, Shin HD, et al. (2005) Korean and Caucasian overweight premenopausal women have different relationship of body mass index to percent body fat with age. J Appl Physiol 99, 103-107.
35. Deurenberg P, Yap MD, Wang J, et al. (1999) The impact of body build on the relationship between body mass index and percent body fat. Int J Obes 23, 537-542. (Pubitemid 29237737)
36. Norgan NG (1994) Interpretation of low body mass indices: Australian Aborigines. Am J Phys Anthropol 94, 229-237. (Pubitemid 24165968)
37. Luke A, DurazoArvizu R, Rotimi C, et al. (1997) Relation between body mass index and body fat in black population samples from Nigeria, Jamaica, and the United States. Am J Epidemiol 145, 620-628. (Pubitemid 27154865)
38. Rush EC, Puniani K, Valencia ME, et al. (2003) Estimation of body fatness from body mass index and bioelectrical impedance: comparison of New Zealand European, Maori and Pacific Island children. Eur J Clin Nutr 57, 1394-1401. (Pubitemid 37407133)