Waist-to-Height Ratio and BMI Predict Different Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chinese Children

作者：Weili Yan, Xiaoling Wang, Hua Yao, Jianghong Dai, Yujian Zheng, Xiao-yan Yang, Xiaokaiti Yibulayin, Jun Cui · 发表于：Diabetes Care · 年份：2006 · DOI：10.2337/dc06-1546 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet、Birth, Development, and Health、Health and Lifestyle Studies

Recently, waist-to-height ratio (WHR) has been documented as a better indicator of obesity and cardiovascular risk than BMI in several different pediatric populations. In the present study, we, for the first time, compared the association of nine cardiovascular risk factors with BMI, waist circumference (WC), and WHR in Chinese children. A random sample of 389 Han and 272 Uygur ethnic children aged 7–18 years (mean ± SE 10.7 ± 3.2) were selected stratified by age, sex, and ethnicity from a school-based cross-sectional study performed in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (the prevalence …