TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluación de la composición corporal en niños y adolescentes
T2 - directrices y recomendaciones
AU - Curilem Gatica, Cristian
AU - Almagià Flores, Atilio
AU - Rodríguez Rodríguez, Fernando
AU - Yuing Farias, Tuillang
AU - Berral de la Rosa, Francisco
AU - Martínez Salazar, Cristian
AU - Jorquera Aguilera, Carlos
AU - Bahamondes Ávila, Carlos
AU - Solís Urra, Patricio
AU - Cristi Montero, Carlos
AU - Bruneau Chávez, José
AU - Pinto Aguilante, Juan
AU - Niedmann Brunet, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, ARAN Ediciones S.A.. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - The body mass index (BMI) provides one of the indices used to determine the nutritional status of the population worldwide, where despite the existence of clear recommendations for interpretation and defined as gender, age, race, etc. usually their classification, independent of the variables is standardized, increasing the error in the result and classification of nutritional status. The use of body composition through anthropometry, delivers more information than BMI, being fat mass and muscle mass leading useful results. This article presents a review of existing and proposed those equations simpler and less error estimate to be used as a tool to replace or supplement to BMI, promoting a better understanding and interpretation of nutritional status and level of physical activity in children and adolescents.
AB - The body mass index (BMI) provides one of the indices used to determine the nutritional status of the population worldwide, where despite the existence of clear recommendations for interpretation and defined as gender, age, race, etc. usually their classification, independent of the variables is standardized, increasing the error in the result and classification of nutritional status. The use of body composition through anthropometry, delivers more information than BMI, being fat mass and muscle mass leading useful results. This article presents a review of existing and proposed those equations simpler and less error estimate to be used as a tool to replace or supplement to BMI, promoting a better understanding and interpretation of nutritional status and level of physical activity in children and adolescents.
KW - BMI
KW - Body composition
KW - Children and adolescents
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030785437&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.20960/NH.285
DO - 10.20960/NH.285
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27513512
AN - SCOPUS:85030785437
SN - 0212-1611
VL - 33
SP - 734
EP - 738
JO - Nutricion hospitalaria
JF - Nutricion hospitalaria
IS - 3
M1 - 00285
ER -