( tudy on Interheart data concluded that ...)Pot Belly Is A Better Risk Predictor Of Heart Attack Than BMI,Health

tudy on Interheart data concluded that abdominal obesity is responsible for about 90% of the risk for myocardial infarction around the world, while other risk factors including cigarette smoking, diabetes, poor diet, and lack of exercise account for the rest.

"It just reinforces what we've known for a long time -- the whole apple-shaped, pear-shaped thing," he said. "What's new here is that BMI falls right out of the equation."

"If you just look at crude data, there is some association, but that's just because people with high BMI tend to have a high waist-to-hip ratio," he said. "If you correct for other risk factors, BMI essentially gives you no information."

He confirms, ‘there's a smooth increase in risk with increasing waist-to-hip ratio, regardless of BMI.’

"The same rules apply to everybody," he said. "Current practice with body-mass index as the measure of obesity is obsolete."
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