KORELASI ANTARA LINGKAR PINGGANG, LINGKAR LENGAN ATAS, DAN LINGKAR LEHER DENGAN INDEKS MASSA TUBUH
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- Background. The prevalence of obesity throughtout the world continue to increasing every year, state of obesity especially the central obesity, could increase the risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. The most accurate methode to examine obesity is using the imagining tools, but these methode is expensive, not practical, and not always available, WHO recommend body mass index (BMI) measurement to examine obesity. Measurement of BMI can not be use to locate the fat distribution in the body. To assess obesity based on the fat distribution is can be done by measuring waist circumference (WC), upper arm circumference (UAC), and neck circumference (NC). Method: This is a analytic observational study with cross-sectional approach. The measurements are performed on all medical students at Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sriwijaya year 2016 who meet the inclusion criteria and doesn’t meet the exclusion criteria. Data was processed using SPSS. Normality test was carried out using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, continued with Spearman correlation test on WC and BMI, UAC and BMI, NC and BMI. Result: The measurements were succesfully performed on 166 females and 61 males. Spearman correlation tests between WC and BMI, UAC and BMI, and NC and BMI on all subjects with or without sexual stratification showed significant results (p<0.05). Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between WC and BMI. There are also significant correlations between UAC and BMI and between NC and BMI.