Adipose tissue body mass index

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Obesity has now become a major public health problem among children and adolescents in the developed world. Obesity is defined in childhood, as in adults, by the proportion of the body weight which is adipose tissue. For most purposes this corresponds to the body mass index (see Chapter 9). A child whose body mass index (BMI) is greater than that of 85% of children of similar age and gender in his or her community, is considered to be overweight if it is greater than 95% of other children of similar age and gender, that child is defined as obese (Kiess et al. 2001). 

In order to define the obese state in a clinical setting, it is necessary to have a means of estimating the amount of adipose (fat) tissue relative to lean body mass. Whereas highly accurate determinations of body composition require complex laboratory procedures, large clinical studies typically employ measures of skin-fold thickness (11) or more commonly, body mass index (BMI) as a quantitative measure of obesity. 

Obesity Excessive body weight due to accumulation of adipose tissue. Obesity is generally considered to be a body mass index greater than 30 between 25 and 30 is overweight. 

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