Age- and sex-specific body composition of Chinese children.
We examined age- and sex-specific body compositions of Chinese children by the bioelectrical impedance method. The subjects were a total of 587 children aged 6-14 y who had normal relative weight. In all ages, boys had larger fat-free mass and lower percent body fat (%BF) than girls did. Even in the subjects with BMI <20 kg/m2, more than one quarter of them had high %BF.


CONCLUSIONS
Chinese children may have higher %BF than that predicted by BMI.
Li
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Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated with Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Zhang
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Yang
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Okada
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Iwata
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Harada
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D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D044466:Asian People; D001823:Body Composition / Q000502:physiology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D015331:Cohort Studies; D017097:Electric Impedance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012737:Sex Factors