Abdominal Obesity in Overweight Schoolchildren from Portoviejo (Ecuador). Conicity Index Cut-Points for Sustainable Health

(1) Background: Abdominal obesity describes the accumulation of visceral fat. Monitoring abdominal in children aids prognosis atherogenic risk and prediction emergence different comorbidities, many which persist into throughout adulthood. For this reason, it is great diagnostic value to sustainability health populations. The aim study was evaluate overweight schoolchildren from Portoviejo (Ecuador) propose conicity index cut-points for sustainable health. (2) Methods: sample formed by 356 whose BMI z-score deemed them be overweight. Height, weight, waist circumference (wstC), various skinfolds, percent body fat, (CI) classification according wstC were determined. (3) Results: mean age 6.83 ± 1.2 years, 17.4% obese, 34.8% 47.8% at being their z-score. height 1.29 0.12 m, whilst weight 35.21 11.57 kg. When classifying wstC, 37.9% identified as 28.1% had high-risk adiposity 34% normal. average CI 1.16 0.06, that fat 19.34 6.03, with 56.2% individuals having values lower than 20%. (4) Conclusions: showed a high prevalence central obesity. Significant agreement not found between classifications nutritional status wstC.