Tri-Ponderal Mass Index vs Body Mass Index in Estimating Body Fat During Adolescence | Zendy

Courtney M. Peterson | Zendy; Haiyan Su | Zendy; Diana M. Thomas | Zendy; Moonseong Heo | Zendy; Amir H. Golnabi | Zendy; Angelo Pietrobelli | Zendy; Steven B. Heymsfield | Zendy

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Tri-Ponderal Mass Index vs Body Mass Index in Estimating Body Fat During Adolescence

Author(s) -

Courtney M. Peterson,

Haiyan Su,

Diana M. Thomas,

Moonseong Heo,

Amir H. Golnabi,

Angelo Pietrobelli,

Steven B. Heymsfield

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

jama pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004

H-Index - 183

eISSN - 2168-6211

pISSN - 2168-6203

DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.0460

Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , body adiposity index , body volume index , index (typography) , body weight , body height , mass index , classification of obesity , pediatrics , fat mass , world wide web , computer science

Body mass index (BMI) is used to diagnose obesity in adolescents worldwide, despite evidence that weight does not scale with height squared in adolescents. To account for this, health care providers diagnose obesity using BMI percentiles for each age (BMI z scores), but this does not ensure that BMI is accurate in adolescents.

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