'At risk' waist-to-height ratio cut-off points recently adopted by NICE and US Department of Defense will unfairly penalize shorter adults. What is the solution?

Alan M Nevill,Guy D Leahy,Jerry Mayhew,Gavin R H Sandercock,Tony Myers,Michael J Duncan

Obesity research & clinical practice（2023）

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Adopting WHTR cut-off thresholds (either 0.5 or 0.55) will lead to shorter adults being unfairly classified as being 'at risk' in terms of their central adiposity and general health status. Adopting new WHT•5R cut-off point thresholds were found to greatly reduce or eliminate this bias.

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Anthropometry,At risk,Body composition,Central adiposity,Obesity,Scaling

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