A waist-to-height ratio of 0.54 is a good predictor of metabolic syndrome in 16-year-old male and female adolescents
Pediatric Research Dec 21, 2018
Vasquez F, et al. - In this cross-sectional study, researchers determined the sensitivity and specificity of selected anthropometric indicators as predictors of cardiovascular risk in adolescents. Study participants included 678 adolescents (16.8 y ± 0.3) from an infancy cohort. According to the findings, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) (0.96) had the greatest area under the ROC curve in males, followed by WC (0.95) and body mass index (BMI) (0.93) whereas BMI (0.84) had the greatest area under the ROC curve (0.84) in females, followed by WHtR (0.83) and WC (0.83). A WHtR value of 0.54 was a good predictor of MetS in males and females. The optimal cutoff of BMI for Mets diagnosis was below the values for diagnosing obesity in both sexes.
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