Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI, study shows

The size of a person's midsection is simply a amended indicator of cardiovascular illness hazard than assemblage wide scale (BMI) alone, according to a survey published successful JACC. BMI has traditionally been utilized to find overweight oregon obesity, communal hazard factors for bosom disease, but this survey shows that not accounting for waist circumference (WC) oregon waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) tin pb to misclassification of cardiovascular illness risk.