Waist circumference, not BMI, can predict mortality in older adults

In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society investigation of nationally typical information from 6,905 U.S. adults property 65 oregon older followed from 2011 to 2024, higher assemblage wide scale (BMI) was associated with little mortality risk, whereas higher waist circumference, a marker of abdominal obesity, was independently associated with higher mortality hazard aft accounting for BMI.