… Mexico, a cross-sectional study evaluating the utility of WHtR to predict metabolic syndrome
in children … WHtR as a strong predictor of this condition, whereas a cut-off of 0.5 showed very …

… 0.5 cut-off might not be sensitive enough to detect children at … a WHtR ≥0.51 to predict
metabolic syndrome). In this study, … WC with the risk of metabolic syndrome, which was defined …

… Our aim was to define an appropriate WHtR cut-off to predict cardiometabolic risk in children
… usually considered in metabolic syndrome), because it was part of our predicting variable. A …

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analyses were performed predicting metabolic syndrome from the WHtR. Cutoffs were chosen …

… and T2DM among adults and children. Citation2 Therefore, … Peninsula in Mexico, that
obtained optimal cut-off values and … focused on WC, BMI, and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). In a …

… The ATP III using Waist-to-Height-Ratio (WHtR) as an … ), there is a disagreement in the cutoff
points of some components as … are useful predictors for this matter, furthermore, balance and …

… Methods: A retrospective study of Mexican children aged 2–… to establish the cutoff value for
the variables (439 children). A … circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio, and diastolic blood …

… percentile) in 6- to 10-year-old Brazilian children34), whereas a WHtR cutoff of 0.59 was
suggested as a predictor of metabolic syndrome (≥3 risk factors among WC≥90th percentile, …

… , and weight for height in predicting metabolic syndrome in obese children and adolescents.
… Waist-to-height: cutoff matters in predicting metabolic syndrome in Mexican children. Metab …

… indexes such as BMI, waist-to-height ratio, and waist-to-hip … Our FMI means fell within the
lower range of the Mexican … , this study reports the first cutoff points for identification of MetS by …