For men with spinal cord injuries, a waist size of 86.5 cm corresponds to a lower heart disease risk threshold (6 instead of 10), identifying more people at risk.

A waist size of 94 cm or more is a reliable indicator of high heart disease risk in people with spinal cord injuries, correctly identifying all cases but sometimes flagging healthy individuals.

In men with spinal cord injuries, larger waist sizes are linked to higher heart disease risk scores, older age, higher cholesterol, higher blood pressure, and smoking.

For men with spinal cord injuries, using a waist size of 86.5 cm instead of 102 cm identifies more people as obese (36% vs 3%), which is a big difference.

For men with spinal cord injuries, a waist size of 86.5 cm better detects belly fat (visceral adipose tissue) than the standard cutoff, identifying more true cases (84.6% vs 7.7%) while still correctly identifying most people without excess belly fat (91.3% vs 100%).

Using a waist size of 86.5 cm instead of 102 cm in men with spinal cord injuries better identifies who has obesity based on body fat percentage, catching more true cases (68.8% vs 6.3%) while still correctly identifying most non-obese people (90% vs 100%).