Prevalence of overweight in adolescents from a Southern Brazilian city according to different anthropometric indexes.

Augusto Gerhart Folmann Vaneza Lira Waldow Wolf Everton Paulo Roman Gil Guerra Junior

Published in: Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo (2020)

The prevalence of overweight was high among adolescents. The boys presented higher frequency of overweight, except if NC was used to classify them. Adolescents before somatic maturation had a higher prevalence of overweight. NC showed a lower ability to track obese adolescents.

Keyphrases

physical activity
weight loss
young adults
risk factors
weight gain
bariatric surgery
adipose tissue
body mass index
body composition
copy number
gene expression
dna methylation
genome wide