Reference centile curves for wrist circumference for Indian children aged 3–18 years
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Vaman Khadilkar
Abstract
Background:
Childhood obesity and its consequences have reached alarming proportions worldwide and in India. Wrist circumference is emerging as an easily measurable reproducible parameter for screening children at risk of obesity-related morbidities such as hypertension and insulin resistance. The objectives of this study were: (1) to compute age and gender-specific wrist circumference percentiles for 3–18-year-old apparently healthy Indian children and adolescents; (2) to assess the relationship of wrist circumference with measures of obesity and adiposity such as body mass index (BMI), fat percentage and blood pressure (BP) and (3) to suggest age and gender-specific cut-offs for wrist circumference percentile for the risk of hypertension in Indian children and adolescents.
Methods:
This was a cross-sectional study on samples of 10,199 3–18-year-old children (5703 boys) from randomly selected schools from five major cities in India. Height, weight, waist and wrist circumference and BP were recorded. Body composition was measured using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Wrist circumference percentiles were computed using the LMS method.
Results:
The average wrist circumference of boys and girls was 10.4 cm and 10.0 cm at 3 years and increased to 15.1 cm and 13.9 cm, respectively, at 18 years. Compared to their Caucasian counterparts, Indian children’s wrists were smaller. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis derived the 70th percentile of wrist circumference as the cut-off for identifying the risk of hypertension.
Conclusions:
Contemporary cross-sectional reference percentile curves for wrist circumference for 3–18-year-old Indian children are presented. The 70th percentile of the current study is proposed as the cut-off to screen children for cardiometabolic risk factors such as hypertension.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
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- Original Articles
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- Decrease in serum chemerin through aerobic exercise plus dieting and its association with mitigation of cardio-metabolic risk in obese female adolescents
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- Management of thyrotoxicosis in children and adolescents: 35 years’ experience in 304 patients
- Clinical and cytogenetic features of 516 patients with suspected Turner syndrome – a single-center experience
- Response to growth hormone treatment in very young patients with growth hormone deficiencies and mini-puberty
- Reference centile curves for wrist circumference for Indian children aged 3–18 years
- Comparison between two inhibin B ELISA assays in 46,XY testicular disorders of sex development (DSD) with normal testosterone secretion
- Genetic mutations associated with neonatal diabetes mellitus in Omani patients
- Four novel mutations of the BCKDHA, BCKDHB and DBT genes in Iranian patients with maple syrup urine disease
- Improved medical-alert ID ownership and utilization in youth with congenital adrenal hyperplasia following a parent educational intervention
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