Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents

Bacopoulou, Flora; Efthymiou, Vasiliki; Landis, Georgios; Rentoumis, Anastasios; Chrousos, George P

doi:10.1186/s12887-015-0366-z

Table 2 Age- and gender-specific smoothed body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) percentiles for Greek adolescents aged 12–17 years

From: Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents

	Age (years)	Percentiles
		3rd	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th	97th
Boys
BMI (kg/m²)	12	15.7	16.8	18.3	20.3	22.8	25.9	30.0
	13	16.2	17.3	18.6	20.5	22.9	25.9	30.3
	14	16.6	17.7	18.9	20.7	23.0	25.8	29.9
	15	17.2	18.2	19.5	21.2	23.4	26.2	30.3
	16	17.6	18.6	19.9	21.6	23.9	26.7	30.6
	17	18.0	19.0	20.3	22.0	24.3	27.0	30.7
WC (cm)	12	58.4	61.3	64.8	69.7	76.0	83.8	95.0
	13	60.1	62.9	66.3	71.0	77.2	84.8	95.9
	14	61.6	64.3	67.6	72.1	77.9	85.0	95.2
	15	62.7	65.4	68.6	73.0	78.6	85.3	94.6
	16	63.7	66.5	69.8	74.2	79.7	86.1	94.6
	17	63.3	66.1	69.5	73.8	79.2	85.1	92.5
WHR	12	0.72	0.74	0.76	0.79	0.83	0.87	0.93
	13	0.72	0.74	0.76	0.79	0.83	0.88	0.94
	14	0.71	0.73	0.75	0.78	0.82	0.86	0.92
	15	0.70	0.72	0.74	0.77	0.81	0.85	0.90
	16	0.70	0.72	0.74	0.77	0.81	0.84	0.88
	17	0.67	0.71	0.74	0.78	0.81	0.83	0.86
WHtR	12	0.37	0.39	0.41	0.44	0.48	0.53	0.59
	13	0.37	0.39	0.41	0.43	0.47	0.52	0.58
	14	0.37	0.38	0.40	0.43	0.46	0.50	0.57
	15	0.36	0.38	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.49	0.55
	16	0.36	0.38	0.40	0.42	0.45	0.49	0.54
	17	0.36	0.37	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.48	0.52
Girls
BMI (kg/m²)	12	15.2	16.4	17.8	19.6	22.0	24.8	28.5
	13	16.0	17.2	18.6	20.5	22.8	25.5	28.9
	14	16.4	17.6	19.0	20.9	23.2	25.7	28.9
	15	16.9	18.1	19.4	21.2	23.4	25.9	28.9
	16	17.3	18.4	19.7	21.5	23.6	26.0	29.1
	17	17.4	18.5	19.8	21.5	23.6	26.1	29.4
WC (cm)	12	56.7	59.1	62.1	66.2	71.7	78.6	89.2
	13	58.0	60.3	63.2	67.2	72.4	79.0	88.9
	14	58.7	61.0	63.8	67.6	72.6	78.7	87.6
	15	58.8	61.1	63.8	67.5	72.2	77.8	85.6
	16	59.0	61.3	64.0	67.7	72.3	77.6	84.9
	17	58.7	61.0	63.8	67.5	72.0	77.3	84.3
WHR	12	0.68	0.70	0.72	0.75	0.79	0.83	0.89
	13	0.66	0.68	0.70	0.73	0.76	0.81	0.87
	14	0.65	0.67	0.70	0.72	0.76	0.80	0.86
	15	0.64	0.66	0.68	0.71	0.74	0.77	0.81
	16	0.64	0.66	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.76	0.79
	17	0.64	0.66	0.68	0.70	0.73	0.76	0.78
WHtR	12	0.37	0.38	0.40	0.42	0.46	0.50	0.57
	13	0.36	0.38	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.49	0.55
	14	0.36	0.38	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.49	0.54
	15	0.36	0.37	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.48	0.52
	16	0.36	0.37	0.39	0.42	0.44	0.48	0.52
	17	0.36	0.37	0.39	0.41	0.44	0.47	0.52

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