Waist-to-height ratio as a measure of abdominal obesity in southern Chinese and European children and adolescents

Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), with a 0.5 threshold (WHtR0.5), is regarded as a simple age- and gender-independent criterion of abdominal obesity (AO) and a better predictor than the 90th percentile of waist circumference (WCP90).An analysis of gender and ethnic differences of WHtR and other AO indices between children and adolescents from southern China (HK: Hong-Kong, China) and Europe (LD: Łódź, Poland).Two large cross-sectional surveys of...