Objective. To identify the degree of association between anthropometric indices and
components of metabolic syndrome (MS) and to determine optimal cut‐off points of these …

Background: Body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and, recently, waist-to-
height ratio (WHtR) have been proposed as clinical indexes to identify children at …

Background Waist circumference has been suggested as predictor for metabolic syndrome
(MetS) in adolescents but it has not been compared with newly proposed anthropometric …

Aim To demonstrate that the waist–height ratio (WHtR) is a simple and effective screening
tool that could be used to identify obese children with the metabolic syndrome. Methods …

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its
components in obese Mexican adolescents and to compare the clinical, anthropometric, and …

An excess of fat mass has been associated with adverse cardiometabolic risk factors.
Different anthropometric measures have been proposed as alternative non-invasive …

Both waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) have been proposed as
predictors of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents, but no consensus has been …

Objective: The accumulation of abdominal fat is associated with cardiometabolic
abnormalities. Waist circumference (WC) measurements allow an indirect evaluation of …

Introducción: hay información limitada sobre la utilidad de la relación cintura-estatura (rCE)
para identificar adolescentes colombianos con factores de riesgo cadiometabólicos (FRC) …

Very few large studies in Latin America have evaluated the association between waist:
height ratio (W-HtR) and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents. Further …