What is the best measure of adiposity change in growing children: BMI, BMI %, BMI z-score or BMI centile?

What use is the BMI?

Comparison between BMI and Inverted BMI in Evaluating Metabolic Risk and Body Composition in Iranian Children

Objectives: To compare BMI and inverted BMI in evaluating body measurement, resting blood pressure, Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) parameters of fat mass and metabolic risk factors in Iranian children Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study on 477 children aged 9-18 yearsin the South of Iran. Weight, height, resting blood pressure, waist and hip circumference and puberta...

Whole grain consumption is inversely associated with BMI Z-score in rural school-aged children.

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between intake of whole grains and BMI Z-score in rural children. DESIGN General linear models and logistic regression were used to examine the cross-sectional associations between whole grain intake and BMI Z-score, prevalence and odds ratios of overweight and obesity. Dietary intake was assessed using the Block Food Screener for ages 2-17 years. Childre...

BMI and Lifetime Changes in BMI and Cancer Mortality Risk

Body Mass Index (BMI) is known to be associated with cancer mortality, but little is known about the link between lifetime changes in BMI and cancer mortality in both males and females. We studied the association of BMI measurements (at baseline, highest and lowest BMI during the study-period) and lifetime changes in BMI (calculated over different time periods (i.e. short time period: annual ch...

Fiber intake, not dietary energy density, is associated with subsequent change in BMI z-score among sub-groups of children.

OBJECTIVE Results from short-term studies demonstrate that energy density influences energy intake, but in children and adolescents the long-term effects of energy density and obesity development are sparse. We examined the longitudinal relationship between dietary energy density, fiber intake, and body weight change over 3 years among Danish children. METHODS Multiple regression analyses wer...