title: Age- and sex-specific body composition of Chinese children.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated with Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harada
mesh_terms: 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