SEP 9, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Obesity definition by percentage of body fat compared to body mass Index in a kidney transplant transition clinic
Frontiers in Pediatrics
A small, single-centre descriptive comparison of two obesity classification methods in a specific transplant population, with a primary finding (BMI possibly overestimating obesity) that did not reach statistical significance and requires confirmation.
Reported
BMI-based overweight/obesity clas…42.9% [95% CI: 28.0–59.1%]
Body fat percentage-based overwei…28.6% [95% CI: 16.3–45.1%]
McNemar p-value for method compar…0.125