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Monitoring children and adolescents with severe obesity: body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score or percentage above the International Obesity Task Force overweight cut-off?

Hanne L LøklingMathieu RoelantsKristin G KommedalHanna SkjåkødegårdEllen M ApalsetBeate BenestadMette H MorkenJøran HjelmesaethPetur Benedikt Júlíusson
Published in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2019)
Changes in the BMI metrics included in the study are associated differently with changes in %BF-DXA. The BMI z-score is widely used to monitor changes in adiposity in children and adolescents with severe obesity, but the %IOTF-25 might be a better alternative.
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