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 XiPublished 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.