Reference data for arm muscle and arm adipose tissue areas in Mexican Americans from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination survey (HHANES 1982–1984): Comparisons with whites and blacks from NHANES II (1976–1980)

✍ Scribed by Alan S. Ryan; Rita Wellens; Alex F. Roche; Robert J. Kuczmarski

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 999 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-0533
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(1996)8:3<389::aid-ajhb10>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

Data for arm muscle area (AMA) and arm adipose tissue area (AATA) from 3695 Mexican American children 6 months to 18 years of age included in HHANES (1982HHANES ( -1984) ) were used to obtain age-and genderspecific means and selected percentiles. These statistics were compared with those for non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black children from NHANES I1 (1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980). In comparison with non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black children, the Mexican American children tended to have smaller means and percentile values for AMA but larger values for AATA. There was consider-