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Waist to height ratio: A simple screening tool for nonalcoholifatty liver disease in obese children
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2016.
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Abstract
- Özhan B, Ersoy B, Özkol M, Kiremitci S, Ergin A. Waist to height ratio: a simple screening tool for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in obese children. Turk J Pediatr 2016; 58: 518-523. Simple predictors are needed for the screening of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese children. We aimed to assess the role of anthropometric parameters in the prediction of NAFLD. Three hundred and thirty two obese children (152 male, 180 female) aged 4.6-17.0 years were included in this study. Weight, height, waist (WC), and hip circumference were measured. Body mass index (BMI), waist-hip-ratio (WHR), and waist-height-ratio (WHtR) were calculated. Obesity was defined as BMI for age and sex >= 95th percentile. NAFLD was diagnosed using ultrasonography (US). NAFLD was present in 60.8% of obese children. Fatty liver prevalence differed significantly by gender and puberty (55.0% of girls vs 67.7% of boys, and 28.7% in prepubertal vs 71.3% in pubertal children; p
- Subjects :
- Male
puberty
Pediatric Obesity
Gastroenterology
preschool child
0302 clinical medicine
Waist–hip ratio
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
gender
waist to height ratio
Child
Waist-to-height ratio
anthropometry
Fatty liver
waist circumference
female
waist hip ratio
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Child, Preschool
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
childhood obesity
mass screening
medicine.medical_specialty
Waist
Adolescent
prevalence
complication
B scan
Childhood obesity
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Internal medicine
medicine
Mass screening tool
nonalcoholic fatty liver
Humans
controlled study
Obesity
human
procedures
Mass screening
Waist-Height Ratio
business.industry
nutritional and metabolic diseases
medicine.disease
school child
major clinical study
body mass
predictor variable
Endocrinology
Pediatri
age
sensitivity and specificity
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
business
Body mass index
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....853efb2e59bbf58b6557c842dd21eb06