title: Proposal of cut points for the indication of abdominal obesity among adolescents.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The absence of critical values for the cardiovascular risk identification among Brazilian adolescents represents an important limitation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To prepare critical values for the waist circumference and to analyze its efficiency in indicating increased values of the arterial pressure.
  
  
  METHODS
  Transversal study that evaluated 1,145 adolescents, from 11 to 17 years old (536 of the male sex and 609 of the female), their body weight values, stature, resistance, reactance, tricipital cutaneous fold, waist circumference and arterial pressure (n = 334) were collected. The abdominal obesity was indicated by waist circumference values.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The obese adolescents presented higher waist circumference values and, independently of the gender and age group, there was a significant relation between the waist circumference values and all the adiposity indicators adopted in the study. The proposed critical values presented higher sensibility in indicating increased values of the arterial pressure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The critical values proposed for the waist circumference were more sensitive in the indication of increased values of the blood pressure. However, other studies to investigate their efficacy in the indication of other clinical and laboratorial parameters are still needed.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rômulo Araújo
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Diego Giulliano Destro
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Christofaro
authors.forename: Diego Giulliano Destro
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Chritofaro
authors.forename: Jamile Sanches
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Codogno
authors.forename: Camila
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Buonani
authors.forename: Denise Rodrigues
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.forename: Arli Ramos de
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Clara Suemi da Costa
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.forename: Ismael Forte
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Freitas Júnior
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D001837:Body Weights and Measures / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D002648:Child; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D056128:Obesity, Abdominal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012016:Reference Values; D017678:Sex Distribution; D055105:Waist Circumference / Q000502:physiology*