June 17th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From The Mirror?..
TENS of thousands of children could be overweight without their parents realising it.
Health experts said yesterday that using Body Mass Index to calculate whether youngsters are obese is unreliable, especially for girls.
Those who are not diagnosed are at risk of suffering from diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Senior academic Claire Griffiths said: ?The problem with BMI is that it does not tell us about the weight distribution on a child.?
A team led by Ms Griffiths at Leeds Metropolitan University measured 14,967 school pupils? fat levels using both BMI scores and their Waist Circumference measure.
More than 2,000 of the 11-year-olds had a waist measurement above that which indicates serious risk in adult women.
BMI figures were in line with the latest official National Child Measurement Programme which showed one in five children were obese.
But by measuring waist circumference they found nearly 1,000 girls, 15% of those in the study, and more than 400 boys, around 6% of those measured, were also obese but would have been overlooked using BMI.
The children are classed as having ?central obesity? with excess weight around their internal organs.
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