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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Body composition study of childhood (3-6yr) obesity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11680037
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 体育学
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

KOMIYA Shuichi  Institute of Health Science, Kyushu University, 健康科学センター, 教授 (30038468)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2002
KeywordsBMI-%ile method / sensitjyity / specificity / fat-free mass index / fat mass index / BMI-rebound
Research Abstract

Childhood obesity is rapidly emerging as a global epidemic that will have profound public health consequences as obesity children become obesity adults. However, the limited use of densitometry and hydrometry in body composition studies of children may be attributed to the difficulty in accessing appropriate instruments, the cost, and the time required to make such measurements. The bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) is only applicable technically to all subjects, regardless of age and gender. Therefore, we used BIA because it can be applied in epidemiological studies and provide more accuracy than anthropometric data. However, there is no internationally acceptable index to assess childhood obesity nor is there an established cutoff point to define obesity in children.
The objectives of this study were to examine 1) the sensitivity and specificity of the body mass index (BMI) as an indicator of the risk of becoming obesity in childhood, 2) reference values for fat-free mass index (FFMI) and fat mass index (FMI) in an apparently healthy children, as a function of age and gender and to develop percentile distribution for these two parameters and 3) the BMI-rebound in Japanese children, and in particular, whether the relation of stature to FFMI and FMI is independent of childhood BMI-rebound, by using data from a 5-years (3-8yr) longitudinal study of Japanese children.

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All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 衛藤稚英子, 小宮秀一 他: "日本人幼児の体脂肪における年間変化"日本生理人類学誌. 7. 107-113 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Komiya S, Masuda T, Teramoto K: "Models for human body composition analysis and basic concepts underlying the generation of predictive equations"J Health Sci. 24. 1-9 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Komiya S, Teramoto K, Masuda T: "Total body composition in children"J Health Sci. 25(印刷中). (2003)

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  • [Publications] 小宮秀一, 中尾武平: "健康行動の科学 身体組成額 栄養・運動・健康"技報堂出版. 160 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Chieko ETO, Shuichi KOMIYA et al.: "Annual changes in body fat of young Japanese children"Japanese Journal of Physiological Anthropology. Vol.7.No.2. 107-113 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Shuichi KOMIYA et al.: "Models for human body composition analysis and basic concepts underlying the generation of predictive equations"Journal Health Science. Vol.24. 1-9 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Shuichi KOMIYA et al.: "Total body composition in children"Journal Health Science. Vol.25(in press). (2003)

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Published: 2004-04-14  

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