Waist-Hip Ratio Beats BMI for Predicting Mortality Risk

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New evidence continues to show that alternative measures of adiposity, such as waist-to-hip ratio, other than BMI, work better for predicting the risk a person with overweight or obesity faces from their excess weight. EASD2022 MedTwitter

September 20, 2022

A direct comparison of waist-to-hip ratio , body mass index , and fat mass index in a total of more than 380,000 United Kingdom residents included in theshowed that WHR had the strongest and most consistent relationship to all-cause death, compared with the other two measures, indicating that clinicians should pay more attention to adiposity distribution than they do to BMI when prioritizing obesity interventions, Irfan Khan said at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study...

 

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