Body mass index as a measure of adiposity among children and adolescents: A validation study

Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty.

1976 • 3,064 citations

Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality of Overweight Adolescents

1992 • 2,258 citations

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for total-body and regional bone-mineral and soft-tissue composition

1990 • 1,489 citations

How Useful Is Body Mass Index for Comparison of Body Fatness across Age, Sex, and Ethnic Groups?

1996 • 1,484 citations

Overweight Prevalence and Trends for Children and Adolescents

1995 • 1,459 citations

Bioenergetic studies in adult patients recovering from semi-starvation.

1985 • 1,439 citations

Body mass index as a measure of body fatness: age- and sex-specific prediction formulas

1991 • 1,290 citations

Body composition of reference children from birth to age 10 years

1982 • 1,260 citations

Guidelines for overweight in adolescent preventive services: recommendations from an expert committee

1994 • 1,040 citations

Human Body Composition

2005 • 769 citations

Overweight prevalence and trends for children and adolescents

1996 • 735 citations

Skinfolds and body density and their relation to body fatness: a review.

1981 • 673 citations

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry body composition model: review of physical concepts

1996 • 588 citations

Adiposity indices in children

1982 • 560 citations

Grading body fatness from limited anthropometric data

1981 • 422 citations

Cross-calibration of body-composition techniques against dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in young children

1996 • 340 citations

Statistical considerations regarding the use of ratios to adjust data.

1995 • 336 citations

Body-composition measurement in 9–11-y-old children by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, skinfold-thickness measurements, and bioimpedance analysis

1996 • 272 citations

Gender and Tanner stage differences in body composition and insulin sensitivity in early pubertal children.

1995 • 251 citations

Relationships Between the Body Mass Index and Body Composition

1996 • 246 citations

Accuracy of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for body-composition measurements in children

1994 • 237 citations

Handbook of assessment methods for eating behaviors and weight-related problems

1996 • 213 citations

Cross-calibration of fat and lean measurements by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry to pig carcass analysis in the pediatric body weight range

1996 • 183 citations

Validation and application of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry to measure bone mass and body composition in small infants

1993 • 181 citations

Peripheral and abdominal adiposity in childhood obesity.

1994 • 161 citations

Body fat distribution in pubertal girls quantified by magnetic resonance imaging.

1992 • 145 citations

Performance of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in evaluating bone, lean body mass, and fat in pediatric subjects

1992 • 143 citations

Intra-abdominal adipose tissue in young children.

1995 • 129 citations

Gender and Tanner stage differences in body composition and insulin sensitivity in early pubertal children

1995 • 83 citations

Body fat and fat-free mass in infants: new and classic anthropometric indexes and prediction equations compared with total-body electrical conductivity

1995 • 83 citations

Regional body fat distribution in relation to pubertal stage: a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry study of New Zealand girls and young women

1996 • 83 citations

Body Composition Techniques in Health and Disease

1995 • 73 citations

The relationship of weight-height indices of obesity to body fat content.

1992 • 68 citations

Body mass index centile charts to assess fatness of British children.

1995 • 67 citations

Prevalence of obesity in children in north-east Italy.

1993 • 57 citations

Prediction of adult body composition from infant and child measurements

1995 • 48 citations

Factors associated with obesity in school children.

1994 • 46 citations

The relationship between weight-height indices and the triceps skinfold measure among children age 5 to 12.

1984 • 45 citations

Obesity Treatment: Examining the Premises

1995 • 44 citations

Adiposity and body mass indices in children: Benn's index and other weight for height indices as measures of relative adiposity.

1996 • 41 citations

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in 16–19‐year‐old teenagers

1989 • 35 citations

Trends in body composition for infants and children in the U.S.

1993 • 32 citations

Familial and environmental influences on body composition and body fat distribution in childhood in southern Italy.

1994 • 31 citations

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adolescence: Prevalence and Familial Aggregation

1994 • 27 citations

Recommended body mass index cutoff values for overweight screening programmes in Australian children and adolescents: Comparisons with North American values

1995 • 17 citations

Hemodynamic and Cardiac Consequences of Childhood Obesity^a

1993 • 9 citations

Comparison of body weight, body height and body fatness of Italian children aged 6-12 years with American standards.

1995 • 7 citations

Epidemiological characteristics of dyslipoproteinaemia and certain other risk factors of atherosclerosis and ischaemic heart disease in 11- and 14-year children in different climatogeographic zones. Results of a cooperative study.

1988 • 4 citations