Mario Leone, Hung Tien Bui, Emilia Kalinova, Jean Lemoyne, Dominic Gagnon, Luc Léger, Georges Larivière, Maxime Allisse
BACKGROUND: Adolescents who experience overweight or obesity commonly persist in these conditions into adulthood, thereby elevating their vulnerability to health issues. The focus of this study is on health risk markers such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), body surface area (BSA), and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). The objectives include updating normative values for BMI, WC, WHtR, and BSA in Canadian adolescents, establishing cardiometabolic risk zones, and developing a composite score considering both anthropometric and CRF markers...
March 28, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health