Importance of Android/Gynoid Fat Ratio in Predicting Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Normal Weight as well as Overweight and Obese Children

Table 1

Characteristics, anthropometrics, and biochemistries of participants, stratified by sex and combined (mean ± SE).

Variable	Girls	Boys	Total
Anthropometrics and age
Age (years)	9.5 ± 0.3	9.6 ± 0.3	9.5 ± 0.2
BMI score	0.43 ± 0.19	0.47 ± 0.21	0.46 ± 0.14
BMI percentile	63 ± 5	61 ± 5	62 ± 3
BMI tertiles (percentiles)
1 mean ± SE	28 ± 4	24 ± 4	26 ± 3
(min–max)	(0–44)	(0–43)	(0–44)
2 mean ± SE	66 ± 3	66 ± 4	66 ± 2
(min–max)	(45–82)	(47–83)	(45–83)
3 mean ± SE	93 ± 1	95 ± 2	94 ± 1
(min–max)	(85–98)	(85–100)	(85–100)
DXA measurements
Total body fat (%)	31.9 ± 1.4	29.6 ± 1.6	30.5 ± 1.1
Android body fat (% of total)	27.5 ± 2.2	24.9 ± 2.2	25.9 ± 1.7
Gynoid body fat (% of total)	37.0 ± 1.4	32.7 ± 1.4	34.6 ± 1.0
Android/gynoid ratio	0.71 ± 0.04	0.70 ± 0.04	0.70 ± 0.03
Blood constituents
Glucose (mmol/L)	4.66 ± 0.07	4.80 ± 0.05	4.73 ± 0.04
Insulin (pmol/L)	53.2 ± 4.6	51.1 ± 5.2	52.0 ± 3.52
HOMA2-IR	1.13 ± 0.10	1.09 ± 0.11	1.11 ± 0.07
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	1.17 ± 0.23	0.90 ± 0.10	1.00 ± 0.12
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.04 ± 0.09	4.27 ± 0.11	4.17 ± 0.07
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.38 ± 0.06	1.51 ± 0.06	1.45 ± 0.04
LDL + VLDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.56 ± 0.10	2.76 ± 0.12	2.67 ± 0.08