The waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) calculation is one way your doctor can see if excess weight is putting your health at risk. It determines how much fat is stored on your waist, hips, and buttocks.

Waist-to-hip ratio is the circumference of your waist divided by the circumference of your hips. Having a higher WHR indicates that you have more weight around your abdomen and higher levels of ...

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 ...

A study recently published in Scientific Reports challenges long-standing assumptions about the most attractive female body shape — and it may not be about the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).

The cohort included 512 participants in the diet quality analysis and 664 in the waist-to-hip ratio analysis. Participants were drawn from the Whitehall II Imaging Study, a subset of the larger ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in the UK according to Cancer Research UK, representing up to 12% of total cancer cases from 2017 to 2019. Overweight and obesity are known ...

Over the last few years, researchers have been examining waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) as a potential replacement for BMI. Previous studies have linked having a higher WHR to an increased risk for ...

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), also known as waist-hip ratio, is the circumference of the waist divided by the circumference of the hips. Research associates a high WHR with certain health risks.