The development of waist circumference percentiles in British children aged 5.0–16.9 y

HD McCarthy, KV Jarrett, HF Crawley - European journal of clinical …, 2001 - nature.com
… : Waist circumferences were measured with a flexible non-elastic tape and waist circumference
percentiles … , the first set of working waist circumference percentiles obtained from data …

Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents

JR Fernández, DT Redden, A Pietrobelli… - The Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
percentiles of the distribution by creating an indicator variable (I) to classify the observations
within a data set as falling above or below a predicted percentile … above the percentile. If the …

Waist circumference percentiles for 7‐to 15‐year‐old Australian children

JC Eisenmann - Acta Paediatrica, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… reference values for waist circumference using data obtained from … Waist circumference (WC)
was measured in the standing … Smoothed percentile curves and percentile values for the 5th…

Waist circumference percentiles for Canadian youth 11–18 y of age

PT Katzmarzyk - European journal of clinical nutrition, 2004 - nature.com
… Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop age- and sex-specific waist circumference
reference … using LMS regression to obtain smoothed percentile curves for waist circumference. …

Utility of waist circumference percentile for risk evaluation in obese children

R Bassali, JL Waller, B Gower, J Allison… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… Obese children with waist circumference at or above the 90th percentile are at higher risk …
normal waist circumference. These results indicate that routine waist circumference evaluation …

Percentile distributions of waist circumference for 7–19‐year‐old Polish children and adolescents

LO Nawarycz, A Krzyżaniak… - Obesity …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
waist circumference (WC) percentiles in … percentile curves were computed using the LMS
method. The curves displaying the values of the 50th (WC 50 ) and the 90th (WC 90 ) percentile

Waist circumference percentiles for 7-to 17-year-old Turkish children and adolescents

N Hatipoglu, A Ozturk, MM Mazicioglu… - European journal of …, 2008 - Springer
… The 50th percentile waist circumference curve of Turkish … percentile curves for waist
circumference of healthy Turkish children aged 7–17 years. The differences in waist circumference of …

International waist circumference percentile cutoffs for central obesity in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years

B Xi, X Zong, R Kelishadi, M Litwin… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… No universal waist circumference (WC) percentile cutoffs used … WC percentile cutoffs in
samples including or excluding children with obesity, overweight, or underweight. WC percentiles

[HTML][HTML] Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults

KM Flegal, JA Shepherd, AC Looker… - The American journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
… , such as waist circumference (WC) or the waist-stature ratio (WSR), has also been suggested
(6, 7, 8). … We also estimate the percentile values of BMI, WC, and WSR that approximately …

[HTML][HTML] Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents

F Bacopoulou, V Efthymiou, G Landis, A Rentoumis… - BMC pediatrics, 2015 - Springer
… 11.1% were found to have obese waist circumference (based on their 90th percentile). The
percentage of adolescents who exceeded the 90th percentile reached a peak at the age of …