Evaluation of Obesity in the Human Dry Dock - Combined BMI and Percent Body Fat-

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  • 人間ドックにおける肥満の判定―BMIと体脂肪率併用による検討―

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In 1999, Japan Society for the Study of Obesity revised the criteria for obesity based on BMI. Briefly, persons with a BMI≥26.4 were classified as “obese”according to the old criteria, while those with a BMI≥25.0 are now obese based on the new criteria. The influence of this change was investigated in the present study. The incidence of obesity increased froml5.2%based on the old criteria to28.0%based on the new criteria. At our center, both BMI (new criteria)and percent body fat are taken into consideration when classifying obesity into types.<br>In the male group, the relative incidence of obesity was as follows; true obesity with an increase of both BMI and percent body fat (20.2%) >apparent obesity with an increase of BMI alone (11.3%) >latent obesity with an increase of percent body fat alone (9.3%). In the female group, the relative incidence of obesity was as follows; latent obesity (17.0%) >true obesity (14.9%) >apparent obesity (1.4%). The incidence of apparent obesity, which was common in the male group, was very low in the female group.<br>We plan to conduct further studies on sex differences in the types of obesity and the clinical significance of such differences.

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