TY - JOUR AU - de Koning, Lawrence AU - Denhoff, Erica AU - Kellogg, Mark D. AU - de Ferranti, Sarah D. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/03/13 TI - Associations of total and abdominal adiposity with risk marker patterns in children at high-risk for cardiovascular disease JO - BMC Obesity SP - 15 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - While body mass index percentiles (BMI%) are commonly used to assess childhood cardiovascular risk, waist circumference percentiles (WC%) are not commonly used nor universally accepted. We tested whether BMI% or WC% should be used to identify risk factor patterns in children at high-risk for developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). A total of 107 children (8–19 years) with cardiovascular risk factors or a family history of CVD were studied. Tobacco exposure, screen-time, blood pressure and anthropometric measures were made, as well as serum risk markers. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to identify patterns explaining risk factor variance. Multiple linear regression was used to test for associations between risk factor patterns, BMI% and WC%. SN - 2052-9538 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40608-015-0043-7 DO - 10.1186/s40608-015-0043-7 ID - de Koning2015 ER -