The objective is to compare BMI with the percentage of body fat and ideal weight, to supplement BMI in the diagnosis of obesity, from a group of adults. METHODS: descriptive, cross-cutting, prospective and correlational study, in a sample of 797 adults between 17 and 96 years old, attended in different clinical centers of Caracas, between 2015 and 2018. The variables are: age, weight, size and BMI was calculated, percentage of body fat (BFP) and ideal weight (IW). They were classified by sex, age group and BMI in normality and obesity. Two formulas were used for BFP: Deurenberg and Regression; and three formulas for IW: Lorenz, Ramirez-Lopez et al and Broca. Descriptive measures, association, correlation, average comparison and normal...
La obesidad constituye un problema de salud pública asociado a condiciones que afectan la morbimorta...
INTRODUÇÃO: A obesidade mórbida tornou-se um importante problema de saúde pública. A medida de massa...
Introduction: Obesity is a public health problem that affects and has increased rapidly in the last ...
The objective is to compare BMI with the percentage of body fat and ideal weight, to supplement BMI ...
Objective: to correlate body mass index (BMI) with percentage of body fat (%BF), in order to observe...
Introduction: Overweight and obesity represent a concern for health authorities, given that it ...
Descriptive, prospective, transversal and correlational study, whose objective is to relate two form...
Introduction: This study compares the Waist Weight-Circumference Index (WIWC), with the indicators B...
Objetivo: Se evalúo el estado nutricional de 358 personas entre los 15 y los 65 años de la ciudad d...
Este estudio observacional transversal evaluó el estado nutricional de 120 adultos indí...
La obesidad es uno de los problemas de salud pública más importantes, por lo que su detección en for...
Obesity is a multifactor disease involving genetic and environmental aspects. Objective: Assess the ...
Obesity is a disease characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat, which produces harmful hea...
Concepts: %WL: Percentage of weight loss; %FL: Percentage of fat loss. Objective: evaluate which uni...
Background: This study was conducted to assess the accuracy when calculating the nutritional status ...
La obesidad constituye un problema de salud pública asociado a condiciones que afectan la morbimorta...
INTRODUÇÃO: A obesidade mórbida tornou-se um importante problema de saúde pública. A medida de massa...
Introduction: Obesity is a public health problem that affects and has increased rapidly in the last ...
The objective is to compare BMI with the percentage of body fat and ideal weight, to supplement BMI ...
Objective: to correlate body mass index (BMI) with percentage of body fat (%BF), in order to observe...
Introduction: Overweight and obesity represent a concern for health authorities, given that it ...
Descriptive, prospective, transversal and correlational study, whose objective is to relate two form...
Introduction: This study compares the Waist Weight-Circumference Index (WIWC), with the indicators B...
Objetivo: Se evalúo el estado nutricional de 358 personas entre los 15 y los 65 años de la ciudad d...
Este estudio observacional transversal evaluó el estado nutricional de 120 adultos indí...
La obesidad es uno de los problemas de salud pública más importantes, por lo que su detección en for...
Obesity is a multifactor disease involving genetic and environmental aspects. Objective: Assess the ...
Obesity is a disease characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat, which produces harmful hea...
Concepts: %WL: Percentage of weight loss; %FL: Percentage of fat loss. Objective: evaluate which uni...
Background: This study was conducted to assess the accuracy when calculating the nutritional status ...
La obesidad constituye un problema de salud pública asociado a condiciones que afectan la morbimorta...
INTRODUÇÃO: A obesidade mórbida tornou-se um importante problema de saúde pública. A medida de massa...
Introduction: Obesity is a public health problem that affects and has increased rapidly in the last ...