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Table 5 Age- and gender-specific eighty-fifth percentile values for waist-height ratio (WHtR) corresponding to cut-off value of 0.5 for defining central obesity among Pakistani primary school children aged five to twelve years (n = 1860)

From: Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio percentiles and central obesity among Pakistani children aged five to twelve years

Age

Boys (n = 997)

Girls (n = 883)

5 years (61-71 months)

0.507

0.499

6 years (72-83 months)

0.504

0.500

7 years (84-95 months)

0.502

0.504

8 years (96-107 months)

0.501

0.507

9 years (108-119 months)

0.501

0.508

10 years (120-131 months)

0.501

0.507

11 years (132-143 months)

0.501

0.504

12 years (144-155 months)

0.500

0.500