Establishing international optimal cut-offs of waist-to-height ratio for predicting cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents aged 6-18 years.

Xin'nan ZongRoya KelishadiYoung Mi HongPeter SchwandtTandi E MatshaJose G MillPeter H WhincupLucia PacificoAbel López-BermejoCarmelo Antonio CasertaCarla Campos Muniz MedeirosAnastasios KolliasMostafa QorbaniFariborz Sharifian JaziGerda-Maria HaasRafael de Oliveira AlvimDivanei ZaniqueliClaudio ChiesaJudit BassolsElisabetta Lucia RomeoDanielle Franklin de CarvalhoMônica Oliveira da Silva SimõesGeorge S StergiouEvangelos GrammatikosMin ZhaoCostan G MagnussenBo Xi

Published in: BMC medicine (2023)

The proposed international WHtR cut-offs are easy and useful to identify central obesity and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents globally, thus allowing international comparison across populations.

Keyphrases

body mass index
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance
type diabetes
weight loss
weight gain
skeletal muscle
adipose tissue