Comparisons of Waist Circumference Measurements at Five Different Anatomical Sites in Chinese Children

Table 4

Age-controlled correlations relating BMI, waist circumference at each site to fat mass, body fat percentage, fat mass in trunk, and fat percentage in trunk for each gender.

	Male ()				Female ()
	FM	% BF	FM in trunk	% BF in trunk	FM	% BF	FM in trunk	% BF in trunk
WC1	0.904	0.800	0.914	0.822	0.885	0.769	0.884	0.792
WC2	0,913	0.812	0.923	0.832	0.881	0.767	0.882	0.791
WC3	0.918	0.826	0.929	0.846	0.892	0.782	0.888	0.804
WC4	0.927	0.833	0.934	0.851	0.889	0.777	0.884	0.798
WC5	0.919	0.822	0.925	0.840	0.895	0.783	0.891	0.807

WC1: immediately below the lowest rib; WC2: at the narrowest part of the torso, above the umbilicus, and below the xiphoid process; WC3: midpoint between the lowest rib and the iliac crest; WC4: 1 cm above the umbilicus; WC5: immediately above the superior border of the iliac crest.
% BF: body fat percentage; FM: fat mass; % BF in trunk: body fat percentage in the trunk; FM in trunk: fat mass in the trunk
All correlation significant at .