Association of Obesity and Body Fat Percentage with Pubertal State in Six- to Nine-Year-Old Chinese Females

An early trend in the mean age of pubertal onset appears in adolescents, but the association between body fat percentage (BF%) of children and precocious puberty is unclear. The aim of the study was to analyze the association of sexual development with BF% in girls. A total of 407 females were inclu...

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Published in:Childhood obesity 2021-12, Vol.17 (8), p.525-533
Main Authors: Lai, Xin, Fu, Simao, Lin, Jianfei, Huang, Sizhe, Yu, Tingting, Li, Xiaoqing, Pan, Dongxue, Liu, Yifan, Chen, Yao, Yu, Xiaodan, Peng, Jianming, Zhang, Bihong, Feng, Xiaowen, Lin, Cuilan, Liu, Shijian
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Language:English
Subjects:
Adipose Tissue
Adolescent
Age
Body composition
Body fat
Body Mass Index
Child
Children & youth
China - epidemiology
Consent
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hormones
Humans
Laboratories
Nutrition
Obesity
Overweight
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology
Puberty
Questionnaires
Sample size
Schools
Students
Teenagers
Tissues
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Summary:An early trend in the mean age of pubertal onset appears in adolescents, but the association between body fat percentage (BF%) of children and precocious puberty is unclear. The aim of the study was to analyze the association of sexual development with BF% in girls. A total of 407 females were included in this cross-sectional study. BF% was measured by Inbody S10, International Obesity Task Force was used to judge overweight or obesity, and early puberty was defined as a younger age than the median age in each of the pubertal Tanner stages. Logistic regression analysis was used to test relationships between pubertal states and independent variables, including age, weight, waist circumference (WC), type of school, and residency. Females with early puberty exhibited higher anthropometry data (such as weight, BMI, BF%) than females with normal maturation (  
ISSN:2153-2168
2153-2176
DOI:10.1089/chi.2020.0247