Validity of newly developed BMI and waist cut-off values for Sri Lankan children.

Wickramasinghe VP, Arambepola C, Bandara P, Abeysekera M, Kuruppu S, Dilshan P, Dissanayake BS.
Annals of Human Biology. 2013;40(3):280-285.
Publication year: 2013

This paper discuss how the newly developed BMI cutoff for children is useful in detecting metabloic abnormalities earlier in the course of obesity in children. Therefore it will help to manage obese children quite early in its course of illness.