title: Is the ratio waist circumference to height (WHtR) of 0.5 a universal measure for abdominal adiposity in children and adolescents?
authors.affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany.|Atherosclerosis Prevention Institute, Munich-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schwandt
authors.affiliation: Atherosclerosis Prevention Institute, Munich-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors.forename: G-M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Haas
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity / Q000502:physiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D056128:Obesity, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055105:Waist Circumference / Q000502:physiology*; D065927:Waist-Height Ratio