Relationship between body mass index and body composition in adolescents of Asian Indian origin and their peers.
The aim was to compare the relationship between body composition and body size in two subgroups with different metabolic risk. Body-mass index z-scores (BMIZ), bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and iliac thicknesses were determined in 178 India-originating Guadeloupian (IOG) adolescents and 481 controls of other origins. Various equations were tested in a regression approach to fit the relationship between BMIZ and iliac thickness, and BMIZ and sum of skinfold thickness. A shift towards higher iliac thickness for a given BMIZ was observed in IOG adolescents. This supports the idea that the relationship between BMI and risk for non-communicable diseases is ethnicity-dependent.
University of the French West Indies and French Guiana, Pointe-à-Pitre Cédex, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. s_antoine@ymail.com
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Antoine-Jonville
Stéphane
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Sinnapah
Olivier
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Hue
D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044383:Black People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D049628:Body Size / Q000208:ethnology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D010379:Peer Group; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio; D014900:West Indies / Q000453:epidemiology