BMI

Central Adiposity Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Beyond BMI

This entry was posted in Cardiovascular Diseases and tagged BMI Central Adiposity CVD Risk on

Waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) identified important differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk that were not captured by conventional BMI categories, suggesting that central adiposity can reclassify CVD risk across normal weight, overweight, and obesity and provide additional diagnostic and prognostic information. The US Cross-Cohort Collaboration study included […]