Estimation of obesity from adiposity indexes in university students of popayán, colombia

Abstract

Obesity is a pathology that affects health conditions, which forces an early detection and the use of standardized and objective tools allows its prevention as a pro-health diagnosis, where we sought to identify the sensitivity of different rates of adiposity in a population of university students in the city of Popayan, Colombia. The study was of cross-sectional character, of correlational descriptive type, carried out in a sample of 1420 university students, whose variables were: body mass index, waist and hip perimeter and body adiposity index, body volume, conicity and CUN-BAE index, applying Pearson’s correlation statistics (p