Performance of the waist-to-height ratio in identifying obesity and predicting non-communicable diseases in the elderly population: A systematic literature review

Use of the waist‐to‐height ratio to predict cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE‐ON study

“…WHtR has been found previously to align well across different age groups, genders and ethnicities, which is in agreement with our findings. A meta‐analysis of elderly individuals showed that WHtR was a better predictor of cardiovascular risk in younger elderly individuals compared to older elderly individuals . In the ADVANCE‐ON study, participants had a median age of 66 and the 90th percentile was 74 years of age; thus, there were few older elderly participants, and we were therefore unable to assess the cardiovascular risk for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.…”

Razão cintura-estatura como marcador antropométrico de excesso de peso em idosos brasileiros

“…According to a systematic review 50 , WHtR is a valid anthropometric index for diagnosis of obesity in the elderly, having been assessed as a good indicator in the prediction of risk factors and cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes, compared to BMI, WC, and WHR, among other parameters. Studies 43,51,52 have also proven that WHtR has high precision in the discrimination of visceral obesity and is more effective than WC and WHR in cardiovascular risk assessment and follow-up in individual and collective clinical practice.…”

Predictive capacity of indicators of adiposity in the metabolic syndrome in elderly individuals

“…However, there is still no consensus about which adiposity indicator is the best predictor of cardiovascular events resulting from body fat accumulation within this age group [5,[8][9][10][11].…”

“…Although there is little data available on the prevalence of MetS in the elderly population both in Brazil and in a global scale [3], it is known that the prevalence increases with age [2,3]. Detecting metabolic disorders -preferably early -is essential to prevent and delay the onset of cardiovascular diseases, including MetS, and to guide their treatment [4][5][6][7].…”