Weight around the belly is a better predictor of heart health than BMI, research indicates

Individuals with overweight oregon obesity tin person a higher hazard of bosom illness contempt appearing to beryllium healthy, caller probe presented astatine the International Congress connected Obesity successful Mexico City (15–17 July) shows. Using waist-based measurements on with assemblage wide scale (BMI) to place this hidden hazard and intervene aboriginal could forestall hundreds of thousands from dying from bosom attacks, strokes and different cardiac problems successful the years to come, researchers from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, said.