Metabolic syndrome (MS) is common among children and adolescents. Age-and gender-
specific references or age-, gender-and height-specific references were used in pediatric …

Aim The objectives of this study were to 1) compare the accuracy of waist: hip ratio (WHR)
and waist: height ratio (WHtR) by determining their association with reference‐standard …

Background: In order to assess the relationship between hypertension or dyslipidemia and
obesity, the body mass index (BMI) is usually used. Unlike waist circumference (WC), BMI …

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is known as a risk factor in cardiometabolic morbidity but there is
no consensus on its definition for teenagers. We aimed to identify cardiometabolic health …

Background: Limited studies have examined the diagnostic performance of body mass index
(BMI), waist circumference (WC) or waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) for identifying …

ObjectiveThe waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) assesses abdominal adiposity and has been
proposed to be of greater value in predicting obesity-related cardiovascular health risks in …

Background Paediatric research analysing the relationship between the easy-to-use
anthropometric measures for adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors remains highly …

Waist circumference is recommended as a means of identifying people at risk of morbidity
associated with central adiposity. Yet, there are no universally agreed cut-points to …

Background Body mass index (BMI) is a common indirect method to assess weight status
among children. There is evidence that BMI data alone can underestimate overweight …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of three waist circumference (WC) measurement
sites to predict cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome (MS) in Brazilian …