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Published on: January 29, 2018
[Bone maturation in obese Aragonese children of both sexes]
M Bueno Lozano1, A Sarría Chueca, M Bueno Sánchez
1Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Objective:
To analyze the relation between height and bone maturation in obese children in Aragón.
Material And Methods:
A group of 86 obese children (36 boys, 50 girls) was studied. Height, weight, cranial circumference, skinfold thickness, Quetelet's index, body fat percentage, total body fat and lean body mass were determined. Bone maturation was calculated according to the three variants of TW2-Aragón method.
Results:
The patients showed an increase of bone maturation on the three system scores, independently of sex or sexual maturation stage; being the RCC score the most discriminative. Increase of bone maturation was significantly correlated with increase of height (p < 0.001). Regression analysis showed in boys and girls (prepubertal and pubertal) a high statistical significance between bone maturation and anthropometrics parameters estimating body fat (weight, skinfold thickness, total body fat and indices).
Conclusions:
The obese children of our study showed an increase of height (p < 0.001) in relation with increase of bone age. Increase of both, bone maturation and height, were significantly correlated with adiposity indices estimating body fat.
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