Adiposity and body fat distribution based on skinfold thicknesses and body circumferences in Czech preschool children, secular changes.

Changes in circumferences in the areas of the measured skinfolds showed, apart from the circumference of the abdomen, a decreasing trend (see Figs. 3 and 4 ).

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In boys, was proved in this context a highly significant increase in skinfolds above quadriceps while the thigh circumference slightly decreased ( Sedlak et al., 2020 ).

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With an increasing trend, the pandemic of children who are overweight and obese has been an alarming problem with an aggravating tendency heightened by the recent COVID-19 pandemic ( Pietrobelli et al., 2020 ; Stavridou et al., 2021 ; Wu et al., 2022 ; Vážná et al., 2022 ).

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