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

BACKGROUND: Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) has been proposed as a simple and effective screening tool for assessing central obesity and cardiometabolic risk in both adult and pediatric populations. However, evidence suggests that the use of a uniform WHtR cut-off of 0.50 may not be universally optimal...

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Autores principales: Zong, Xin’nan, Kelishadi, Roya, Hong, Young Mi, Schwandt, Peter, Matsha, Tandi E., Mill, Jose G., Whincup, Peter H., Pacifico, Lucia, López-Bermejo, Abel, Caserta, Carmelo Antonio, Medeiros, Carla Campos Muniz, Kollias, Anastasios, Qorbani, Mostafa, Jazi, Fariborz Sharifian, Haas, Gerda-Maria, de Oliveira Alvim, Rafael, Zaniqueli, Divanei, Chiesa, Claudio, Bassols, Judit, Romeo, Elisabetta Lucia, de Carvalho, Danielle Franklin, da Silva Simões, Mônica Oliveira, Stergiou, George S., Grammatikos, Evangelos, Zhao, Min, Magnussen, Costan G., Xi, Bo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37968681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03169-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37968681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03169-y

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