Waist-to-Height Ratio and BMI Predict Different Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chinese Children
- Weili Yan, PHD1,
- Xiaoling Wang, PHD2,
- Hua Yao, PHD1,
- Jianghong Dai, MS1,
- Yujian Zheng, PHD1,
- Xiaoyan Yang, MD1,
- Xiaokaiti Yibulayin, BS1 and
- Jun Cui, BS3
- 1School of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
- 2Georgia Prevention Institute, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
- 3Education and Research Center of Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Address correspondence to Weili Yan, PhD, School of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, 8 Xinyi Rd., Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang, China. E-mail:yanweili01{at}yahoo.com.cn
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 …
