Body Fat Percentage in Active and Inactive Students Using Anthropometric Parameters

International Journal of Pediatrics

Maryam Ghane¹  Azar Aghayari²  Alireza Babai mazreno³ 

[1] Department of Exercise Management, Education District Yazd, Yazd, Iran.;Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;Master of Sports Physiology, Islamic Azad University, KhorasganBranch, Isfahan, Iran.;

关键词: Body mass index;    Waist Circumference;    Body Fat;    Physical Activity;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Introduction: Complications of obesity and high fat in children are grave now and future. The aim of this research is comparing percentage of body fat in active and inactive girls using Anthropometric Parameters.Materials and Methods: This research is descriptive- correlation that 144 active(n= 70) and inactive(n= 74) girls aged 8 to 10 years old were selected by random cluster sampling method and studied the relationship between percentage of body fat and Anthropometric Parameters and Result analyzed by SPSS-18 software. data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics for example pearson correlation coefficient to investigate the relationship between composition variables . Confidence level for all tests was considered 95% . Results: The mean age of the subjects in this study were 8 to 10 years .Result indicated BMI from anthropometric indexes had significant recipe with percentage of body fat in both of groups and waist circumference to hip ratio (WHR) was significant only in inactive group (p ≤ 0.05).Conclusion: Results of this research indicated percentage of fat influenced by level of activity.

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