Cardiometabolic Risk Assessments by Body Mass Index z-Score or Waist-to-Height Ratio in a Multiethnic Sample of Sixth-Graders
Figure 1
Within the high-fatness subpopulations, the point estimates (with 95% confidence intervals) represent here the slopes of the associations between blood pressure and either BMIz or WHtR for 3 predominant ancestral groups (Hispanic, black, and white). Black participants exhibited no linear associations between systolic blood pressure and increasing adiposity (a). Diastolic blood pressure was related to increasing adiposity for black boys, but not black girls (b).
