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Body mass-to-waist ratio strongly correlates with skeletal muscle volume in children

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  • Megumi Ohta
  • Taishi Midorikawa
  • Yuki Hikihara
  • Shizuo Sakamoto
  • Yasuo Kawakami
  • Tetsuo Fukunaga
  • Hiroaki Kanehisa

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Purpose: We hypothesized that body mass-to-waist ratio is strongly associated with the total-body skeletal muscle volume (SMV) in children. The purpose of the present study was to examine this hypothesis. Methods: By using magnetic resonance imaging, total-body SMV (SMVMRI) was determined in 70 boys and 53 girls aged 6 to 12 years. Waist was measured at each of the level of umbilicus (Wumb) and the minimum circumference (Wmin), and the ratio of body mass to each of the two measured values was calculated (BM/Wumb and BM/Wmin, respectively). A single regression analysis was used to examine the relationships between SMVMRI and either BM/Wumb or BM/Wmin. On the basis of the obtained regression equations, SMVMRI was estimated and referred to as SMVBM/Wumb or SMVBM/Wmin. Results: In both boys and girls, SMVMRI was highly correlated to BM/Wumb (r = 0.937 for boys and r = 0.939 for girls, P

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  • Megumi Ohta & Taishi Midorikawa & Yuki Hikihara & Shizuo Sakamoto & Yasuo Kawakami & Tetsuo Fukunaga & Hiroaki Kanehisa, 2017. "Body mass-to-waist ratio strongly correlates with skeletal muscle volume in children," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(5), pages 1-13, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0177155
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177155
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    1. Diego A. Bonilla & Leidy T. Duque-Zuluaga & Laura P. Muñoz-Urrego & Yurany Moreno & Jorge M. Vélez-Gutiérrez & Katherine Franco-Hoyos & Alejandra Agudelo-Martínez & Gustavo Humeres & Richard B. Kreide, 2022. "Development and Validation of Waist Girth-Based Equations to Evaluate Body Composition in Colombian Adults: Rationale and STROBE–Nut-Based Protocol of the F20 Project," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-10, August.

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