Waist-to-height ratio and its associations with body mass index in a sample of Tuscan children in primary school

Table 2 Waist-to-height ratio percentiles by age and gender

	Waist-to-height ratio percentiles
	3rd	5th	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th	95th	97th
Boys age (y)
6	0.40	0.41	0.42	0.44	0.45	0.48	0.50	0.52	0.53
7	0.40	0.41	0.42	0.44	0.46	0.49	0.52	0.54	0.55
8	0.40	0.40	0.41	0.42	0.45	0.48	0.53	0.55	0.56
9	0.39	0.39	0.40	0.42	0.44	0.47	0.52	0.55	0.55
10	0.39	0.40	0.41	0.42	0.45	0.48	0.51	0.54	0.55
11	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.43	0.47	0.50	0.53	0.57	0.58
Girls age (y)
6	0.41	0.41	0.42	0.43	0.45	0.49	0.52	0.54	0.59
7	0.39	0.40	0.40	0.42	0.44	0.48	0.51	0.52	0.54
8	0.39	0.39	0.40	0.41	0.44	0.47	0.51	0.55	0.56
9	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.42	0.45	0.47	0.51	0.55	0.58
10	0.37	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.43	0.47	0.50	0.52	0.55
11	0.36	0.37	0.37	0.39	0.42	0.44	0.48	0.54	0.56

ISSN: 1824-7288