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Schmid-Zalaudek, K; Brix, B; Sengeis, M; Jantscher, A; Fürhapter-Rieger, A; Müller, W; Matjuda, EN; Mungamba, MM; Nkeh-Chungag, B; Fredriksen, PM; Goswami, N.
Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Measured by B-Mode Ultrasound to Assess and Monitor Obesity and Cardio-Metabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents.
Biology (Basel). 2021; 10(5): Doi: 10.3390/biology10050449 [OPEN ACCESS]
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Führende Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
Goswami Nandu
Schmid-Zalaudek Karin
Co-Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
Fürhapter-Rieger Alfred
Jantscher Andreas
Müller Wolfram
Steuber Bianca
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Monitoring of children at heightened risk of cardio-metabolic diseases raises the need for accurate assessment of obesity. A standardized approach for measuring subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) by bright-mode ultrasound was evaluated in relation to body indices and anthropometry in a cross-sectional sample of 76 South African children (7-10 years) and 86 adolescents (13-17 years) to assess cardio-metabolic risk. SAT was higher in girls as compared to boys (children: 50.0 ± 21.7 mm > 34.42 ± 15.8 mm, adolescents: 140.9 ± 59.4 mm > 79.5 ± 75.6 mm, p < 0.001) and up to four times higher in adolescents than in children. In children, measures of relative body weight showed only a poor correlation to SAT (BMI: r = 0.607, p < 0.001), while in adolescents, BMI correlated high with SAT (r = 0.906, p < 0.001) based on high rates of overweight and obesity (41.8%). Children with identical BMIs may have large differences (>2-3-fold) in their amount of SAT. The moderate association to systolic (r = 0.534, r = 0.550, p < 0.001) and diastolic blood pressure (r = 0.402, r = 0.262, p < 0.001) further substantiates that SAT measured by ultrasound provides an accurate, safe and easy applicable approach for monitoring in children and adolescents at cardio-metabolic risk.

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