Research Article
Establishing Waist-to-Height Ratio Standards from Criterion-Referenced BMI Using ROC Curves in Low-Income Children
Table 1
Descriptive data for the total sample and within sex groups (means and standard deviations).
| | | Total sample () | Girls () | Boys () |
| | BM (kg/m2) | 19.1 (4.3) | 18.9 (4.6) | 19.3 (3.8) | | WHt | 0.49 (0.08) | 0.48 (0.08) | 0.50 (0.07) | | Total cholesterol (mg/dL) | 153.1 (27.7) | 153.1 (26.4) | 153.2 (29.4) | | LDL cholesterol (mg/dL) | 87.1 (26.7) | 85.3 (24.4) | 90.0 (29.9) | | HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) | 44.6 (13.2) | 44.5 (12.1) | 44.7 (14.6) | | Triglycerides (mg/dL) | 112.6 (82.8) | 112.0† (94.1) | 99.6 (62.2) | | Glucose (mg/dL) | 86.1 (9.6) | 86.1 (10.0) | 86.1 (9.0) | | Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 112.9 (14.6) | 113.0 (14.4) | 112.9 (15.0) | | Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 67.1 (10.9) | 65.6 (10.5) | 69.2† (11.2) |
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Note. stands for body mass index; stands for waist-to-height ratio; bold indicates statistical differences compared to the opposite sex, .
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