OBJECTIVE: To purpose news body mass index (BMI) cut offs to 7 to 12 years old scholars. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 1.413 scholars of 7 to 12 years old selected of aleatory way. Were measured the BMI, total cholesterol (TC), and systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). To the date analyze were used the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve) and the bivariate analyze. RESULTS: The BMI cut offs proposed at this study show adequate capacity to identify true positive […]