Measuring your waist is more accurate than your weight for predicting if you'll get sick or die early.

Increased waist circumference is associated with a higher risk of metabolic disease and mortality, independent of total body weight.

Having a larger waist circumference is the main indicator of metabolic syndrome risk in adults from middle-income countries.

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.

People with bigger waistlines are much more likely to have multiple health problems like high blood sugar, bad cholesterol, and high blood pressure.

People with bigger waists are more likely to die sooner, even if their overall weight seems normal—this means where you carry fat matters more than how much you weigh.