Resumen de Comparación de indicadores para el diagnóstico de la obesidad infantil y juvenil

María Dolores Marrodán Serrano, Marisa González Montero de Espinosa, Susana Moreno Romero, J.L. Pacheco del Cerro, María Soledad Mesa, V. Montero Roblas, E. Moreno Heras, M.L. Callejo Gea

• Adult's obesity is an important factor of risk of diverse chronic illnesses and it seems bound to the overweight in the childhood. For it to identify children with excess weight, it could be an appropiate measure of prevention of these illnesses in the adult. The sample is composed of 5921 individuals understood between the 12 and the 20 years, in those that different indicators are analyzed being applied diverse national and international references, in order to select appropiate approaches for the diagnosis of the obesity in stages of big morphophisiological changes such as the childhood and the puberty.