TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluación de la composición corporal en niños y adolescentes
T2 - Directrices y recomendaciones
AU - Gatica, Cristian Curilem
AU - Flores, Atilio Almagià
AU - Rodríguez, Fernando Rodríguez
AU - Farias, Tuillang Yuing
AU - de la Rosa, Francisco Berral
AU - Salazar, Cristian Martínez
AU - Aguilera, Carlos Jorquera
AU - Ávila, Carlos Bahamondes
AU - Urra, Patricio Solís
AU - Montero, Carlos Cristi
AU - Chávez, José Bruneau
AU - Aguilante, Juan Pinto
AU - Brunet, Luis Niedmann
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Grupo Aula Medica S.A. All rights reserverd.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
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
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M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84982993489
SN - 0212-1611
VL - 33
SP - 734
EP - 738
JO - Nutricion Hospitalaria
JF - Nutricion Hospitalaria
IS - 3
ER -