We provide age- and sex-specific cut-off points that can be used to
identify abdominal obesity in adolescents. The present findings provide a tool that
can be used in the clinical setting for the early detection and prevention of adult obesity.
Population-specific cutoffs may be required for pediatric ages to diagnose
children at risk.
1 | INTRODUCTION
The prevalence of pediatric overweight and obesity has
increased substantially over the past decades in both developed
and developing countries (Ng et al., 2014; de Onis,
Blosser, & Borghi, 2010). The risk of overweight and obese
youth becoming overweight adults is at least twice as high as
their regular-weight peers (Singh, Mulder, Twisk, Van
Mechelen, & Chinapaw, 2008).
Body mass index (BMI) is a widely recognized surrogate
of obesit
