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KMID : 1234920100100010017
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Journal of Korean Oriental Association for Study of Obesity
2010 Volume.10 No. 1 p.17 ~ p.28
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Validation of Somatotype Drawing for Assessment of Childhood O
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Lee Jong-Woo
Eom Hye-Jeong
Yin Chang-Shik
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Abstract
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Objectives: It is significant to determine the validation of a self-administered somatotype drawing for the simple assessment of childhood obesity in elementary school and clinical practice.
Methods: The subjects were 202 children(112 boys and 90 girls) who answered a questionnaire for somatotype drawing and weremeasured for body components with bioelectrical impedance. The somatotype drawing of children was analysed according to the three criteria of childhood obesity - BMI percentile, obesity index and percent body fat, respectively.
Results: BMI, waist-hip ratio, skeletal musclemass and proteinmass had significant differences(p<.05) between boys and girls. Somatotype drawing had the highest correlation with BMI in both boys and girls, and also showed a high correlation with BMI percentile, obesity index and percent body fat.According to these criteria of childhood obesity, the somatotype drawing was the best consistent with the obesity index, next turn was the percent body fat and then the BMI percentile.
Conclusions: The validation of somatotype drawing for the assessment of childhood obesity was analysed according to BMI percentile, obesity index and percent body fat, and the somatotype drawing was the best consistent with obesity index in both boys and girls.
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KEYWORD
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Childhood Obesity, Somatotype Drawing, Assessment of Obesity
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