Anthropometric Indicators of Adiposity Related to Body Weight and Body Shape as Cardiometabolic Risk Predictors in British Young Adults: Superiority of Waist-to-Height Ratio

Table 1

Anthropometric indicators of adiposity used in this study, reference, and equation for calculation.

Measure	Author (year)	Equation
Anthropometric indicators of adiposity related to body weight
Body mass index (BMI)	Gysel (1974) [31]	BMI = body weight (kg)/height (m)^2
New body mass index (New BMI)	Van Vugt et al. (2015) [82]	New BMI = 1.3 × (weight (kg)/height (m)^2)
Clinica Universidad de Navarra-Body Adiposity Estimator (CUN-BAE)	Gomez-Ambrosi et al. (2012) [129]	BF% = −44.988 + (0.503 × age (years)) + (10.689 × sex) + (3.172 × BMI (kg/m^2))−(0.026 × BMI^2 (kg/m^2)) + (0.181 × BMI (kg/m^2) × sex) − (0.02 × BMI (kg/m^2) × age) − (0.005 × BMI^2 (kg/m^2) × sex) + (0.00021 × BMI^2 (kg/m^2) × age), where male = 0 and female = 1
Anthropometric indicators of adiposity related to body shape
Waist circumference (WC)	WHO (2008) [37]	Circumference of the waist measured in standardized position as advised by the WHO (cm)
Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)	WHO (2008) [37]	WHR = waist circumference (cm)/hip circumference (cm)
Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR)	Ashwell (1995) [46]	WHtR = waist circumference (cm)/height (cm)
Body Adiposity Index (BAI)	Bergman et al. (2011) [83]	BAI (percentage body fat, BF%) = (hip circumference (cm)/height (m)^1.5) − 18.
A Body Shape Index (ABSI)	Krakauer and Krakauer (2012) [134]	ABSI = waist circumference (cm)/(BMI (kg/m^2)^0.66 × height (m)^0.5)