Waist-to-hip ratio is a more accurate tool for predicting hypertension than waist-to-hip circumference and BMI in patients with type 2 diabetes: A prospective study. https://www.frontiersin.org ...

WHO defines abdominal obesity in men as a waist-to-hip ratio of at least 0.90. For women, it’s a ratio of 0.85 or more. A ratio higher than 1.0 for either sex means a much higher chance of ...

Waist-to-hip ratio measures the ratio of your waist size to your hip size. It’s an alternative to body mass index, or BMI, and can suggest how much visceral fat you have. See our chart, and ...

Waist-to-hip ratio measures the ratio of your waist size to your hip size. It’s an alternative to body mass index, or BMI, and can suggest how much visceral fat you have. See our chart, and ...

PCPs should use the waist-to-hip ratio rather than BMI to evaluate obesity among Hispanic and Latino adults, according to experts. Yanbo Zhang, PhD, an assistant professor of pathology at the ...

The waist-to-hip ratio is a measure indicating healthy levels of body fat. Use a tape measure to determine the circumference at you waist — the smallest width of your natural waist, ...

In contrast, waist-to-hip ratio can help indicate a higher percentage of abdominal fat such as visceral fat, which occurs around the organs such as the heart, according to the researchers.

Waist-to-hip ratio is "a stronger and more robust measure" compared to BMI, he told UPI in an email. "Instead of aiming for a specific BMI target, ...

The new research questions previous findings that a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 — where the waist is approximately 30% smaller than the hips — is the ideal indicator of female beauty.

Maintaining a low waist-to-hip ratio in middle age could mean a better chance at staying mentally sharp in later life, researchers have concluded after studying several decades of health data for ...

Higher waist-to-hip ratio correlated with increased mean diffusivity and radial diffusivity in major white matter tracts, ...

The number of overweight and obese adults in India is expected to rise from 180 million in 2021 to an 449 million by 2050.