RT Journal Article
T1 Diagnostic accuracy of the waist-to-height ratio and other anthropometric indices for metabolically healthy obesity in the working population
A1 Guzman-Garcia, Jose-Miguel
A1 Romero-Saldana, Manuel
A1 Molina-Recio, Guillermo
A1 Alvarez-Fernandez, Carlos
A1 Raya-Cano, Elena
A1 Molina-Luque, Rafael
K1 Metabolically healthy obesity
K1 Anthropometric indices
K1 Obesity
K1 Abdominal obesity
K1 Working population
AB Approximately one-third of overweight individuals, and half of those with obesity, do not have cardiometabolic disorders. For this reason, a phenotype called metabolically healthy obese (MHO) has emerged to describe this population group. The early detection of this situation could save costs associated with the development of comorbidities or pharmacological interventions. Therefore, the aim is to know the prevalence of MHO in the working population and propose variables for its detection. Cross-sectional descriptive study of 635 workers of the Cordoba City Council was carried out based on the results of the 2016 health surveillance. The outcome variables were the MHO, established based on the criteria of the IDF, NCEP-ATP III, and Aguilar-Salinas. In addition, the degree of agreement between the different MHO criteria was studied using Cohen's kappa (k), and the predictive capacity of the anthropometric variables was assessed with Receiver Operator Curves. The prevalence of MHO ranged from 6.6 to 9%. The highest agreement was reached between the IDF and NCEP-ATP III definitions (k = 0.811; 95% CI 0.724-0.898; p< 0.001). The waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) showed the highest discriminant capacity for MHO, with its best cut-off  point in the three criteria analyzed. Therefore, WHtR is the variable that best detects the presence of MHO
PB Frontiers Research Foundation
SN 2296-861X
YR 2022
FD 2022-10-24
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20670
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20670
LA en
NO Guzmán-García JM, Romero-Saldaña M, Molina-Recio G, Álvarez-Fernández C, Raya-Cano E, Molina-Luque R. Diagnostic accuracy of the waist-to-height ratio and other anthropometric indices for metabolically healthy obesity in the working population. Front Nutr. 2022 Nov 16;9:962054
DS RISalud
RD Apr 20, 2025