Arroyo KJ, et al. - In middle-aged women, the association between waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and anxiety was evaluated. In this secondary analysis of data from a multicenter study of women between 40 and 59 years old from 11 Latin America countries, researchers assessed anxiety using the Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale, and calculated WHtR according to World Health Organization standards and categorized in tertiles: upper, middle, and lower using 0.45 and 0.6 as cutoff values. Findings suggest an association of WHtR with anxiety in middle-aged women. In the crude model, compared with women in lower tertile, those in the middle and upper WHtR tertile displayed a markedly higher tendency to have anxiety. However, only women in upper tertile had a higher tendency of displaying anxiety than those in lower tertile in the adjusted models.