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Waist-to-hip ratio: It it better than BMI to measure weight?
BMI is an easy measure, but it is not the most accurate predictor of health status, says the expert. While WHR is ...
Yahoo Finance14 天
Waist-to-hip ratio a better predictor of colorectal cancer risk than BMI
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in the UK according to Cancer Research UK, representing up to 12% of total cancer cases from 2017 to 2019. Overweight and obesity are known ...
Medscape23 天
Belly Fat Beats BMI in Predicting Colorectal Cancer Risk
Researchers assessed the associations between BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist circumference (WC) with CRC risk and the degree of independence among these associations in patients aged 40 ...
Medscape17 年
Waist-to-hip ratio a better marker of subclinical atherosclerosis than BMI and waist ...
Speaking with heart wire, de Lemos said the large INTERHEART study, previously reported by heart wire, showed that the WHR and waist circumference ... between BMI and cardiovascular risk, an ...