Waist-to-Height Ratio Is a Better Anthropometric Index than Waist Circumference and BMI in Predicting Metabolic Syndrome among Obese Mexican Adolescents

Table 2

Anthropometric indices of the study population, grouped by sex and the presence or absence of metabolic syndrome.

	Overall   ()	Female ()		Male ()		Intergroup comparison^a
		Without MS (−) ()	With MS (+) ()	Without MS (−) ()	With MS (+) ()
BMI percentile	98.49 (1.04)	98.27 (0.95)	98.54 (1.18)	98.18 (1.05)	98.76 (0.93)	= 0.054
Waist, cm	93.76 (11.43)	87.35 (8.84)	95.49 (11.15)	90.15 (11.1)	97.73 (11.31)	= 0.003^b
WHtR	0.63 (0.06)	0.59 (0.04)	0.63 (0.05)	0.62 (0.07)	0.64 (0.06)	= 0.025^b

Unless otherwise indicated, values are given as the mean (standard deviation).
^aKruskal-Wallis test with 3 degrees of freedom.
^bSignificant values.