Performance of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) App in Predicting Nutrient Adequacy and Metabolic Risk Factors among Thai Adults.

Background: The Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) was developed for monitoring nutrient adequacy and diet-related noncommunicable disease risk in diverse populations. A software application (GDQS app) was recently developed for the standardized collection of GDQS data. The application involves a simplified 24-h dietary recall (24HR) where foods are matched to GDQS-food groups using an onboard database, portion sizes are estimated at the food group level using cubic models, and the GDQS is computed.

Low Sleeping Time, High TV Viewing Time, and Physical Inactivity in School Are Risk Factors for Obesity in Pre-Adolescent Thai Children.

Objective: Explore the association between physically active behavior and obesity in 7- to 12-years-old Thai children.

Material And Method: As part of SEANUTS Thailand, information on anthropometry, physical activity, and sociodemographic variables were collected in 7- to 12-years-old urban and rural Thai children. Multi-stage sampling technique was used and 1,345 children (32% urban, and 50.

Multicompartment model comparison of body fat assessment in Thai adolescents.

Objective: To examine the limits of agreement of percent body fat (%BF) assessed by different compartment models (2C and 3C compared to 4C).

Material And Method: Fifty-one healthy Thai adolescents (25 males and 26 females) aged 16 to 19 years volunteered in the present study. Underwater weighing (UWW) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) were used for measurement of %BF for 2C and 3C models.

Study on different sites of waist circumference and its relationship to weight-for-height index in Thai adolescents.

Objective: To compare waist circumference (WC) measured at different sites of trunk region and to determine predictive WC values that were corresponding to weight-for-height index in Thai adolescents.

Material And Method: The authors conducted the cross-sectional study in 509 adolescents, aged 10-18 years old WC was measured at four different sites of trunk region, WC1; at midway between the lowest rib and the iliac crest, WC2; at the narrowest waist, WC3; at immediately above the iliac crest and WC4; at the umbilicus level. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was also performed to determine WC cutoffs to maximize the sensitivity and specificity.