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Fig. 2 | Cardiovascular Diabetology

Fig. 2

From: BMI-based obesity classification misses children and adolescents with raised cardiometabolic risk due to increased adiposity

Fig. 2

Association of body mass index and body fat percentage stratified by gender in children and adolescents. A) Left: girls (n = 378). Right: boys (n = 175). Horizontal lines delimit cutoffs for defining overweight and obesity according to BF% (30.0 and 35.0% in girls and 20.0 and 25.0% in boys, respectively). B) Classification of subjects as normal, with overweight or with obesity according to body mass index (Cole’s classification) or body fat percentage. Overweight was defined as BF% between 20.1–24.9% in boys or between 30.1–34.9% in girls, while obesity was defined as BF ≥25.0% in boys or ≥35.0% in girls

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

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