title: [Anthropometry in the diagnosis of obese patients: a review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To update existing knowledge of anthropometry used in the diagnosis of obesity in Cuba and the world.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature and document review during March 2010 and January 2012. The databases searched were Medline and Cochrane through PubMed. We used the following key words: anthropometry, obesity, adults.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The evidence shows that existing anthropometric indicators are not entirely effective in diagnosing obesity in primary health care, some of their applicability and other hard not to respect the latter concept of obesity issued by the World Health Organization inaccuracy or evaluative.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite the wide variety of existing anthropometric indicators to diagnose obesity in adults all have their difficulties in application and generalization. Besides that most of these are not adapted and validated for specific populations.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cultura Física, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Holguín, Cuba. yuryrr@ucm.hlg.sld.cu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rosales Ricardo
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods*; D003462:Cuba; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011320:Primary Health Care