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Study: 40% of people who meet obesity criteria not at higher risk for heart disease
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Waist-to-hip ratio may be a better measure than body mass index for assessing heart health risk in people with obesity, a new study has found. Photo courtesy of pxhere
May 7 (UPI) Forty percent of people who meet the standard criteria for obesity are not at increased risk for heart disease or death, according to findings published Friday by JAMA Network Open.
People with a body-mass index above 30, the threshold for obesity, but with a relatively low waist-to-hip ratio, normal blood pressure levels and no Type 2 diabetes were found to be at low risk for heart disease-related death, the data showed.