Table 1.

Different measures of overweight and obesity and the cut-off points used.

	Men			Women
Normal weight	Overweight	With obesity	Normal weight	Overweight	With obesity
Body Mass Index (BMI) (World Health Organization, 2000)	< 25	25–29.99	≥ 30	< 25	25–29.99	≥ 30
Waist circumference (WC) (World Health Organization, 2000, Lean et al., 1995, World Health Organization, 2008)	< 94	94–101.9	≥ 102	< 80	80–87.9	≥ 88
Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) (World Health Organization, 2000, National Institute of Health and National Heart Lung and Bloo)	< 0.9	0.9–0.99	≥ 1.0	< 0.8	0.8–0.84	≥ 0.85
Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) (Browning et al., 2010, Ashwell, 2012)	< 0.5	≥ 0.5	≥ 0.6	< 0.5	≥ 0.5	≥ 0.6
BIA percent body fat (Peterson et al., 2014, Snitker, 2010)	≤ 25%	> 25%		≤ 32%	> 32%