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Volume 8
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
Childhood Obesity 2018
March 15-16, 2018
March 15-16, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain
11
th
International Conference on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Does dietary calcium intake is effective in regulating body weight in children?
Mehnoosh Samadi
and
Amir Bagheri
Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran
F
at Mass Index (FMI) relates body fat mass to height and allows comparing body fat mass of individuals at different heights.
In this study, dietary calcium intake and some nutritional factors in obese children aged 8-10 were investigated. In this
study, 580 children with FMI at or above the 90th percentile of age-specific data (FMI 6.9 kg/m
2
) are known as obese in case
group and 600 children with FMI less than the 90th percentile are known as normal weight in control group was classified. In
this study, body fat mass was measured by bio impedance analyzer and for calcium intake; we used a validated food frequency
questionnaire. In the case group calcium intake was significantly lower than the control group (574±112 and 836±161
mg/d) (P<0.01), respectively. In this study, we use three model of logistic regression. In model one, after adjustment for total
energy intake and the percentage of energy from macronutrients inverse association between calcium intake and obesity was
significant. In model two by further adjustment for the effect of fruits and vegetable intake inverse association between calcium
intake and obesity was significant and in model three by further adjustment for the effect of physical activity level inverse
association between calcium intake and obesity became weaker but yet was significant. Even after controlling for confounding
factors the inverse relationship between calcium intake and FMI remained significant. In this study, we showed that FMI may
be a more accurate index that shows the association between calcium intake and obesity.
Biography
Mehnoosh Samadi has completed her PhD fromAhvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. She is theAssistant Professor of Nutritional Science department
in the School of Nutritional Science and Food Technology of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. She has published more than 10
papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.
mehnoosh_samadi@yahoo.comMehnoosh Samadi et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-057