title: [Body mass index to the cardiovascular disease risk screening in infancy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To purpose news body mass index (BMI) cut offs to 7 to 12 years old scholars.
  
  
  METHODS
  1.413 scholars of 7 to 12 years old selected of aleatory way. Were measured the BMI, total cholesterol (TC), and systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). To the date analyze were used the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve) and the bivariate analyze.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The BMI cut offs proposed at this study show adequate capacity to identify true positive and negative to the cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors presence. Besides, these cut offs show higher and more balanced sensibility and specificity values than other cut offs proposals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The BMI proposed at this study configure with as the more adequate alternative to the screening for the scholars with increased chances to carry DCV risk factors.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Pampa, RS, Brasil. gabrielgbergmann@gmail.com
authors.forename: Gabriel Gustavo
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Bergmann
authors.forename: Adroaldo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaya
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Halpern
authors.forename: Mauren Lúcia de Araújo
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bergmann
authors.forename: Ricardo Rodrigo
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Rech
authors.forename: Cristine Boone
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Constanzi
authors.forename: Lidiane Requia
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Alli
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012372:ROC Curve; D012016:Reference Values; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol