It was previously reported from the same data that waist-to-height ratio can assess body fat to a maximum of 85% accuracy ...

Agbaje assessed BMI and waist-to-height ratio for 7,600 children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) birth cohort in the U.K. Data were collected at age 9, 15 and 24 years.

The NHS advises to people to look at their waist to height ratio rather than just their wait circumference to determine if they have a healthy level of body fat. To do so, use a tape measure ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with ... of obesity was seen for children and adolescents, according to data published in JAMA. Genetic risk scores for predicting insulin ...

B ody mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist ...