Correlation of body mass index of ecuadorian indigene children with skinfolds

Authors

  • Carlos Castañeda Guillot
  • Freddy Fernando Jumbo Salazar
  • Jhonatan Miguel Siguencia Muñoz
  • Icler Sisalema Aguilar

Keywords:

Body Mass Index, skinfolds, indigenous children, Pearson's correlation coefficient, tricipital fold

Abstract

Introduction: Skinfold assessment is an important part of health and body composition assessment in medical research.

Objective: The objective of the study was to identify whether Body Mass Index is relaté to skinfolds in a population of indigenous children from the Sierra region of Ecuador.

Methods: The study was prospective, analytical, cross-sectional and observational, corresponding to the relational level. The research population consisted of 546 children from the indigenous community of the Sierra region of Ecuador. The hypothesis posed assumed the existence of a correlation between the variables analyzed, and Pearson's correlation coefficient was applied to evaluate it. The software used for the analysis was IBM SPSS Statistics (v. 27.0, 64-bit edition).

Results: For all correlations, Pearson's correlation values (r) were positive and significant at a confidence level of 0.01 (bilateral), indicating a strong positive relationship between BMI and each of the skinfolds. The highest correlation was found between BMI and Suprailiac Fold, with a value of r = 0.809.

Conclusions: The results showed that in this population of indigenous children from the Sierra region of Ecuador, there was a significant and positive correlation between BMI and the amount of subcutaneous fat measured through different skinfolds, thus affirming that skinfolds were relevant indicators of body composition in these children.

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Published

2023-11-01

How to Cite

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Castañeda Guillot C, Jumbo Salazar FF, Siguencia Muñoz JM, Sisalema Aguilar I. Correlation of body mass index of ecuadorian indigene children with skinfolds. Rev Cubana Inv Bioméd [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 1 [cited 2025 Aug. 1];42(2). Available from: https://revibiomedica.sld.cu/index.php/ibi/article/view/3050