TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Obermüller, Janina
T1  - Development of fat distribution patterns in children and its association with the type of body shape assessed by the Metric-Index
T2  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - The present cross-sectional anthropometric study evaluates new approaches in preventing overweight in children. Anthropometric data were obtained in 289 German children (146 boys, 143 girls) aged 6-11 years and 41 20-29 year old German female students for describing the type of body shape by Metric-Index (thoracic breadth, thoracic depth, height). The data were correlated with 15 fat layers measured with a lipometer with Principal Component Analyses and ANOVA. In females the android respectively gynoid type of body shape was significantly associated with the pyknomorphic respectively leptomorphic type. The study demonstrates that this pattern is established by an age of 8 years, when the earliest maturing children start to enter puberty. This pattern can be used to check the individual's risk of overweight and to recommend preventive healthcare interventions.
KW  - school children
KW  - type of body shape
KW  - risk of overweight
KW  - prevention
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36364
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
SP  - 45
EP  - 55
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -