Accuracy Of Obesity Cut-off Values Of BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio For Koreans With Intellectual Disabilities

The purpose of study was to examine the accuracy of cut-off values of BMI and WHR for persons with intellectual disabilities in Korea. A total of 93 healthy individuals with intellectual disabilities in Korea (ages 18-50yrs; 65 males, 168.07+ or -9.78cm, 70.13+ or -14.79kg vs. 28 females, 154.24+ or...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2012-05, Vol.44 (5S), p.871-871
Main Authors: Lee, Miyoung, Chun, Haeja, Fernhall, Bo
Format: Article
Language:English
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The purpose of study was to examine the accuracy of cut-off values of BMI and WHR for persons with intellectual disabilities in Korea. A total of 93 healthy individuals with intellectual disabilities in Korea (ages 18-50yrs; 65 males, 168.07+ or -9.78cm, 70.13+ or -14.79kg vs. 28 females, 154.24+ or -8.27cm, 56.65+ or -10.73kg) participated. To examine the accuracy of cut-off values for BMI and WHR, R adjusted for gender was calculated from the linear regression analysis, and ROC analyses were conducted to determine the true-positive (Sensitivity; ST) and false positive (1-specificity; SF) rates utilizing SPSS 19 (IBM SPSS Inc., USA). BMI and WHR were highly correlated with BF% (R =.86 and .73, respectively). In terms of the area of ROC curves, BMI was .93 (95%CI: .91-1.00) for males and .89 (.76-1.00) for females, which is an excellent agreement. WHR showed .93(.87-.99) and .67(.44-.93) for males and females, respectively.
ISSN:0195-9131