| CPLP | Community of Portuguese-speaking countries |
| ISAK | International Society for the Advanced of Kinanthropometry. |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| WHtR | Waist-to-height ratio |
| EU-SILC | EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions |
| SPSS 22.0 | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 22.0 |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| MWW | Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon |
| KW | Kruskal–Wallis |
| ORa | Adjusted odds ratio |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| IOTF | International Obesity Task Force |
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