(Angioplasty) is at least a reasonable alternative to (drug) therapy in high-risk patients, and in expert hands, may be preferred in patients prone to stroke, such as the elderly, |
BMI is a very weak predictor of the risk of a heart attack. Measuring the girth of the waist and (the) girth of the hip is far more powerful. |
BMI is a very weak predictor of the risk of a heart attack. Measuring the girth of the waist and [the] girth of the hip is far more powerful. |
I don't think there is anything magic about this ratio, except that it's a window to the balance between muscle and fat. Around the waist there is no large muscle. |
I'd say just do the waist-to-hip ratio. There really is no additional value (in) doing the BMI. |
I'd say just do the waist-to-hip ratio. There really is no additional value [in] doing the BMI. |
Most of us think of obesity as a problem of rich and western industrialized countries. But our data shows that it also affects low and middle income countries especially people living in cities, |
Our findings suggest that substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world. |
Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world, |
The best index of obesity as a predictor of myocardial infarction is the waist-to-hip ratio, |
The future really is to find therapies that are just as effective, but safer, |
The global burden of obesity has been substantially underestimated by the reliance of BMI in previous studies. |
The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio, |
This means a short-term therapy that is just as effective at preventing events but is much safer translates in the long term to an important difference, |
What we know is that fat in the abdomen, which is associated with a larger waist, is metabolically active and produces various hormones that can cause harmful effects, such as causing diabetes, affecting blood pressure, affecting lipid [blood fat] levels, ... Fat in the abdomen may also relate to fat in the liver, and that makes the liver not function well. |