Indonesian Children and Adolescents’ Body Mass Index: WHO and Asia-Pacific Classification

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200214.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescents, Asia-pacific, BMI classification, children’s, WHO

Abstract

The present of this study was to assess the World Health Organization (WHO) and Asia-Pacific Body Mass Index (BMI) classification differences in Indonesia Children’s. The research method used is cross-sectional study. A total of 2936 Indonesian children’s and adolescents between 7 and 17 years of age (1598 male; 1338 female) in West Java Province participated in this study. 108 volunteers of SP3OR, involved in measuring weight and height at 18 county town at West Java Province. The results showed that there were no differences in BMI between boys and girls. There are differences in BMI when using WHO and Asia-Pacific classification on Indonesia children’s and adolescents. When referring to the Asia-Pacific classification of BMI, more than twelve percent’s of children’s and adolescents categorized overweight and obese. While when using WHO classification, 5,4 percent’s of Indonesia children’s and adolescents categorized overweight and obese. This results can be one of the reference in Indonesia about BMI categorization uses when making an intervention program.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jajat Jajat
AU  - Adang Suherman
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/19
TI  - Indonesian Children and Adolescents’ Body Mass Index: WHO and Asia-Pacific Classification
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 263
EP  - 266
SN  - 2468-5739
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