What your waist size could reveal about hidden health risks shocked experts

The Many Ways to Measure Health: Which Is Best? Standing on a bathroom scale, calculating your BMI (that classic weight ...
UPI

Study: Waist-to-hip ratio should replace BMI to measure healthy weight

Sept. 21 (UPI) --New research suggests that waist-to-hip ratio, and not body mass index is a better measure of healthy weight -- and may predict early death better than BMI. The researchers urge using ...
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Waist-to-hip ratio better predicts early death than BMI – and should replace BMI as a simple measure of healthy weight

Waist-to-hip ratio is a stronger predictor of early death than BMI and should be considered as a superior measure of healthy weight, new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European ...
Medical Xpress

Waist-to-hip ratio better predicts early death than BMI and provides superior measure of healthy weight, study finds

Waist-to-hip ratio is a stronger predictor of early death than BMI and should be considered as a superior measure of healthy weight, new research being presented at the annual meeting of the European ...
Nature

Response to the Letter entitled ‘BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio: diabetes mellitus types 2’

In his letter, Dr Wiwanitkit (this issue) argued that measurement of waist circumference (WC) is subject to less error because only a single measurement is required ...
Healio

Q&A: The importance of using waist-to-hip ratio to measure obesity

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with BMI-defined severe obesity but a healthy waist-to-hip ratio did not have increased mortality risk.
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Belly Fat May Matter More to Your Heart Than Your Weight

A person can have a body weight considered normal and still carry a pattern of fat that is linked to a higher risk of heart disease. That is the message from a major new study showing that the size ...