Professor Pujitha Wickramasinghe
Use of Waist to Height Ratio in assessing metabolic derangements among normal and overweight/obese 5-15 year old individuals.
A draw back of BMI in assessment of obesity is that in children it has age specific cutoff and also need more equipment to calculate it. However wasit circumference to height is an index derived of simple measure and irrespective of age or sex the cutoff value is 0.5.