Volume 29, Issue 6
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Abdominal obesity in adolescents: Development of age‐specific waist circumference cut‐offs linked to adult IDF criteria

Jorge Bravo

Department of Sport and Health, Research Center in Sports, Health Sciences and Human Development, Science and Technology School, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal

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Armando M. Raimundo

Department of Sport and Health, Research Center in Sports, Health Sciences and Human Development, Science and Technology School, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal

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Diana A. Santos

Exercise and Health Laboratory, CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

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Rafael Timón

Department of Didactics of Music, Plastic and Corporal Expression, Sports Science School, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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Luís B. Sardinha

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: lsardinha@fmh.ulisboa.pt

Exercise and Health Laboratory, CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Correspondence Luís B. Sardinha, Exercise and Health Laboratory, CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Estrada da Costa, 1499‐002, Cruz‐Quebrada, Portugal. Email:

lsardinha@fmh.ulisboa.pt

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First published: 01 July 2017
Citations: 1

Funding information: Grant sponsor: DAS is supported by a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; grant number: SFRH/BPD/92462/2013.

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