aDepartment of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China
bFondazione per la Medicina Solidale, Reggio Calabria, Italy
cDepartment of Public Health, State University of Paraiba, Campina Grande, Brazil
dPediatrics Research Group, Girona Institute for Biomedical Research, Salt, Spain
eThird Department of Medicine, Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece
fZibo Disease Control and Prevention Center, Zibo, China
gDepartment of Pediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome
hInstitute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
iDepartment of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Medicine, Vestische Children's Hospital, University of Witten/Herdecke, Datteln, Germany
jDepartment of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
kDepartment of Medicine, University Center of Medical Sciences of Campina Grande, Campina Grande
lDepartment of Maternal and Child Health, Institute of Integral Medicine Professor Fernando Figueira, Recife, Brazil
mDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China
nAssociazione Calabrese di Epatologia, Reggio Calabria, Italy
oDepartment of Physiotherapy, University Center of Medical Sciences of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil
pPediatric Department, General Hospital of Samos, Vathi, Greece
qDepartment of Physical Therapy, EUSES University School, Salt, Spain
rCenter for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Correspondence to Bo Xi, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, 44 Wen Hua Xi Road, Jinan 250012, China. Tel: +86 0531 88382141; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; BP, blood pressure; CI, confidence interval; cIMT, carotid intima–media thickness; FBG, fasting blood glucose; HDL-CHDL, -cholesterol; IDF, International Diabetes Federation; MetS, metabolic syndrome; NCEP, National Cholesterol Education Program; OR, odds ratio; ROC, receiver operating characteristic curve; WHtR, waist-to-height ratio
Received 6 August, 2019
Revised 30 October, 2019
Accepted 30 October, 2019
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