Development of fat distribution patterns in children and its association with the type of body shape assessed by the Metric-Index
- 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.
| Author details: | Christiane SchefflerORCiDGND, Janina Obermüller |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1127/0003-5548/2011/0138 |
| ISSN: | 0003-5548 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie |
| Publisher: | Schweizerbart |
| Place of publishing: | Stuttgart |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2012 |
| Publication year: | 2012 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Tag: | prevention; risk of overweight; school children; type of body shape |
| Volume: | 69 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 45 |
| Last Page: | 55 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
