Prevalence of Sarcopenic Obesity in Adults with Class II/III Obesity Using Different Diagnostic Criteria

Table 2

Prevalence of obesity in study cohort () using various sex-specific definitions determined by anthropometric and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurements amongst studies investigating sarcopenic obesity.

Variables	Reference	Females ()		Males ()
		Cut point	Prevalence (%)	Cut point	Prevalence (%)
BMI (kg/m^2)	Newman et al., 2003 [29]	≥30	100	≥30	100
	Oh et al., 2015 [32]
Waist circumference	Levine and Crimmins, 2012 [31]	>88	100	>102	100
Fat mass (%)	Kim et al., 2009 [28]	>31.71	100	>20.21	100
	Bouchard et al., 2009 [30]	≥35	99	≥28	100
	Batsis et al., 2015 [8]	≥35	99	≥25	100
	Baumgartner et al., 1998 [7]	>38	99	>27	100
	Baumgartner et al., 2004 [37]	>40	98	>28	100
	Zoico et al., 2004 [27]	>42.9	90.3	NA

circumference not available for the entire cohort: females (, 78.6%) and males (, 76.5%). BMI: body mass index; NA: not applicable.