There is a general consensus that obesity is an eminently inflammatory process. Research has shown strong evidence of asociation between increasing inflammatory potential of diet and CVD risk and related mortality.
This index is widely used in the adult population, but there are few studies focused on children or adolescents. The objective of this work was to investigate in a sample of young people the association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) and central obesity, as in adult population.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO AS A CENTRAL OBESITY INDICATOR AND INFLAMMATORY POTENTIAL OF THE DIET: A STUDY IN YOUNG PEOPLE