BMI-based obesity classification misses children and adolescents with raised cardiometabolic risk due to increased adiposity

To assess how inaccurately the body mass index (BMI) is used to diagnose obesity compared to body fat percentage (BF%) measurement and to compare the cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents with or wi...

Source: Cardiovascular Diabetology - September 4, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: J. Karina Zapata, M. Cristina Azcona-Sanjulian, Victoria Catal án, Beatriz Ramírez, Camilo Silva, Amaia Rodríguez, Javier Escalada, Gema Frühbeck and Javier Gómez-Ambrosi Tags: Research Source Type: research