TY - JOUR
T1 - Age-dependent percentile for waist circumference for Japanese children based on the 1992-1994 cross-sectional national survey data
AU - Inokuchi, Mikako
AU - Matsuo, Nobutake
AU - Anzo, Makoto
AU - Takayama, John Ichiro
AU - Hasegawa, Tomonobu
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements We are deeply indebted to Prof. Takao Takahashi, Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, for his critical comments. We also thank the Research Institute of Human Engineering for Quality Life for providing the data in computer readable form. This study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Grant-in-Aid for Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and Grand-in-Aid for Keio Health Counselling Center.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - The aim of this study was to set forth an age-dependent percentile for waist circumference of Japanese children and to compare the reference with data from other countries. We utilized the 1992-1994 cross-sectional national survey data on waist circumference as measured at two benchmark sites in 10,614 Japanese children (5,851 boys, 4,763 girls) aged 6.0-18.0 years for constructing the reference by the LMS method. Japanese children had smaller waist circumference percentile values as compared to those of Dutch and US children, but had comparable or larger percentile values as compared to those of UK children. We suspect that the observed ethnic differences may be in part due to the differences in benchmark in waist circumference measurements in each country. We present for the first time an age-dependent percentile for waist circumference for Japanese children. It is mandatory to standardize a benchmark site for waist circumference for more meaningful international comparison.
AB - The aim of this study was to set forth an age-dependent percentile for waist circumference of Japanese children and to compare the reference with data from other countries. We utilized the 1992-1994 cross-sectional national survey data on waist circumference as measured at two benchmark sites in 10,614 Japanese children (5,851 boys, 4,763 girls) aged 6.0-18.0 years for constructing the reference by the LMS method. Japanese children had smaller waist circumference percentile values as compared to those of Dutch and US children, but had comparable or larger percentile values as compared to those of UK children. We suspect that the observed ethnic differences may be in part due to the differences in benchmark in waist circumference measurements in each country. We present for the first time an age-dependent percentile for waist circumference for Japanese children. It is mandatory to standardize a benchmark site for waist circumference for more meaningful international comparison.
KW - Childhood obesity
KW - Ethnicity
KW - International comparison
KW - LMS method
KW - Waist circumference/height ratio
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U2 - 10.1007/s00431-006-0296-8
DO - 10.1007/s00431-006-0296-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 17089087
AN - SCOPUS:34249075504
SN - 0340-6199
VL - 166
SP - 655
EP - 661
JO - European Journal of Pediatrics
JF - European Journal of Pediatrics
IS - 7
ER -
