Associations of cardiometabolic outcomes with indices of obesity in children aged 5 years and younger.
Koon K TeoTalha RafiqSonia S AnandKarleen M SchulzeSalim YusufSarah D McDonaldGita WahiNora AbdallaDipika DesaiStephanie A AtkinsonKatherine M MorrisonPublished in: PloS one (2019)
Each of the four commonly used measures of childhood obesity shows moderate associations with cardiometabolic risk factors at 5 years, with no advantage of one measure over the other. These associations were less consistent at 3 years of age or younger. These observations have not been reported previously.