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Article: Heart disease risk more closely associated with waist circumference than body mass index.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- December 28, 2002
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2002 DEC 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Waist circumference (WC) is better than body mass index (BMI) at predicting risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
"The objective was to determine the relations of waist circumference to obesity-associated risk factors in a representative sample of U.S. whites and to derive comparable risk thresholds for waist circumference and body mass index," said Shankuan Zhu and colleagues at the New York Obesity Research Center in the U.S.
The investigators analyzed data on 9019 participants of the third ...