Department of Family Medicine, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey.
Acta Paediatr. 2010 Dec;99(12):1847-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01949.x.
To provide neck circumference (NC) percentiles and mean values for Turkish children and to investigate their significance in clinical and epidemiological use.
Data were obtained from a cross-sectional screening study; DAMTCA II (Determination of Anthropometric Measurements in Turkish Children and Adolescents) in which 5481 subjects from 17 primary, secondary and high schools were included. NC percentiles were produced using the LMS method, and NC was compared with other parameters which define body fat distribution.
The smoothed NC curves of 3rd, 5th, 15th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 85th, 90th, 95th and 97th percentiles were constructed by age and gender. The descriptive characteristics of collected data were presented as mean (SD: standard deviation) and median (Min-Max: minimum-maximum) to provide detailed information other than smoothed values. The most prominent finding of this study was that the NC of boys was greater, but not significantly higher, than that of girls until the age of 12 but later a prominent increase in the NC of boys is observed compared with girls. We compared obese and non-obese children in the 6-10, 11-13, 14-18 age groups, NC was found to be an important parameter to define obesity.
This study provides NC percentiles, means and medians values and analyses their significance in obesity evaluation in clinical practice.
为土耳其儿童提供颈围（NC）百分位数和平均值，并探讨其在临床和流行病学应用中的意义。
数据来自一项横断面筛查研究；DAMTCA II（土耳其儿童和青少年人体测量学测量的确定），其中包括来自 17 所小学、中学和高中的 5481 名受试者。使用 LMS 方法生成 NC 百分位数，并将 NC 与定义体脂分布的其他参数进行比较。
通过年龄和性别构建了第 3、5、15、25、50、75、85、90、95 和 97 百分位的平滑 NC 曲线。收集数据的描述性特征以平均值（SD：标准差）和中位数（Min-Max：最小值-最大值）表示，以提供除平滑值之外的详细信息。这项研究最显著的发现是，男孩的 NC 一直大于女孩，但直到 12 岁时并不显著高于女孩，但之后男孩的 NC 显著增加。我们比较了 6-10、11-13、14-18 岁组中肥胖和非肥胖儿童的 NC，发现 NC 是定义肥胖的一个重要参数。
本研究提供了 NC 百分位数、平均值和中位数，并分析了其在临床实践中肥胖评估中的意义。
