Waist-to-height: cutoff matters in predicting metabolic syndrome in Mexican children

• Published in: Metabolic syndrome and related disorders Vol. 9; no. 3; p. 183
• Main Authors: Elizondo-Montemayor, Leticia, Serrano-González, Mónica, Ugalde-Casas, Patricia A, Bustamante-Careaga, Humberto, Cuello-García, Carlos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2011
• Subjects: Body Height - physiology; Body Weights and Measures - methods; Body Weights and Measures - standards; Child; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Growth Charts; Humans; Male; Metabolic Syndrome - complications; Metabolic Syndrome - diagnosis; Metabolic Syndrome - epidemiology; Metabolic Syndrome - etiology; Mexico - epidemiology; Obesity - complications; Obesity - epidemiology; Overweight - complications; Overweight - epidemiology; Prognosis; Reference Values; Risk Factors; Waist Circumference - physiology

Body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and, recently, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) have been proposed as clinical indexes to identify children at cardiometabolic risk. The aim was to identify the usefulness of WHtR cutoffs, WC, and BMI as predictors of metabolic syndrome in Mexican childre...