Comparison of various anthropometric indices in predicting abdominal obesity in Chinese children: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Selected characteristics of the study population

Variables	Boys			Girls			Total
Variables	Obesity (n = 52)	Non-obesity (n = 203)	Total (n = 255)	Obesity (n = 33)	Non-obesity (n = 164)	Total (n = 197)	P-value ^a
Age (years)	8.17 ± 1.03	7.92 ± 0.88	7.97 ± 0.91	7.88 ± 0.97	8.10 ± 0.95	8.06 ± 0.96	0.285
Height (m)	1.34 ± 0.09^***	1.28 ± 0.08	1.29 ± 0.08	1.30 ± 0.08	1.28 ± 0.08	1.28 ± 0.08	0.679
Weight (kg)	37.1 ± 10.4^***	24.8 ± 4.58	27.3 ± 7.93	31.4 ± 6.47^***	24.1 ± 4.43	25.3 ± 5.53	0.002
BMI (kg/m²)	20.4 ± 3.77^***	15.1 ± 1.66	16.2 ± 3.09	18.3 ± 2.18^***	14.6 ± 1.44	15.2 ± 2.10	< 0.001
CC (cm)	70.5 ± 9.59^***	59.1 ± 4.05	61.4 ± 7.26	64.8 ± 5.85^***	57.5 ± 3.94	58.7 ± 5.10	< 0.001
WC (cm)	68.8 ± 10.5^***	54.4 ± 4.58	57.4 ± 8.52	61.5 ± 6.85^***	52.8 ± 4.16	54.2 ± 5.71	< 0.001
HC (cm)	77.1 ± 9.18^***	64.2 ± 5.36	66.8 ± 8.17	72.8 ± 6.30^***	64.2 ± 5.16	65.6 ± 6.25	0.07
WHR	0.89 ± 0.05^***	0.85 ± 0.04	0.86 ± 0.04	0.84 ± 0.05^*	0.82 ± 0.04	0.83 ± 0.05	< 0.001
WHtR	0.51 ± 0.06^***	0.42 ± 0.03	0.44 ± 0.05	0.47 ± 0.04^***	0.41 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.04	< 0.001
AFP (%)	35.5 ± 5.07^***	20.7 ± 4.24	23.7 ± 7.43	35.3 ± 5.15^***	22.8 ± 4.39	24.9 ± 6.48	0.08

BMI Body Mass Index, CC Chest Circumference, HC Hip Circumference, WC Waist Circumference, WHR Waist-to-Hip Ratio, WHtR Waist-to-Height Ratio, AFP Abdominal fat percentage
^atest for differences between boys and girls. ^*: P < 0.05; ^**: P < 0.01; ^***: P < 0.001 compared with the non-obesity groups

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