title: Obesity parameters as predictors of early development of cardiometabolic risk factors.
abstract: The scope of this study was to verify the association between different overweight and obesity parameters and the metabolic risk profile among school-age students. The randomized cross-sectional study included 1254 children and adolescents, aged 7 to 17, from a city in southern Brazil. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and percentage of fat (PF), measured at the triceps and based on subscapular skinfold thickness, were used as the parameters to evaluate overweight/obesity status. Systolic blood pressure (SBP), total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), low-density protein cholesterol (LDL) and triglycerides were also measured. The metabolic risk profile was calculated based on the sum of the z score of the metabolic variables adjusted by age. A three-model Poisson analysis was used to verify the association between BMI, WC and PF with metabolic risk profile. BMI showed the highest probability for developing metabolic risk compared with WC (overweight - PR: 1.63 and obesity - PR: 3.87) and PF (overweight - PR: 1.62 and obesity - PR: 2.92). In conclusion, BMI seems to be a better parameter of overweight/obesity than WC and PF in the assessment of metabolic risk among youths.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Miria Suzana
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Burgos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Educação Física e Saúde, UNISC, Brasil.
authors.forename: Cézane Priscila
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Reuter
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Lia Gonçalves
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Possuelo
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Andréia Rosane de Moura
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Valim
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Jane Dagmar Pollo
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Renner
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tornquist
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil, mburgos@unisc.br.
authors.forename: Debora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tornquist
authors.affiliation: Escola de Educação Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Anelise Reis
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Gaya
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D055105:Waist Circumference