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Measuring your waist compared to your height isn’t any better than just using your BMI or waist size to guess your heart risk—all three are about equally useful in this group.

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Is Waist to Height Ratio Better than Other Indices of Obesity in Determining Cardiovascular Risk?

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The study looked at three ways to measure obesity—WHtR, BMI, and waist size—and found that none of them was clearly better than the others at predicting heart disease risk in healthy adults. So, WHtR isn’t any more useful than the others, which matches the claim.

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Is Waist to Height Ratio Better than Other Indices of Obesity in Determining Cardiovascular Risk?

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DOI: 10.9734/ijbcrr/2024/v33i5872

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