Overweight and abdominal obesity increase mortality risk, although the risk may be mediated by traditional cardiac risk factors. The authors assessed the association of baseline measures, change in overall body weight and abdominal obesity (waist circumference), and weight and waist circumference cycling with total mortality among postmenopausal women with known heart disease. They used data fr...

This paper compares body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, and waist-hip ratio as risk factors for ischaemic heart disease and stroke in Asia Pacific populations. We undertook a pooled analysis involving six cohort studies (45 988 participants) and used Cox proportional hazards regression to assess the associations of the four anthropometric indices with stroke and ischaemic h...

Many diseases are associated with excess abdominal fat like cardiovascular diseases. Monitoring and controlling led to one of the many factors that can change status a person’s health. Awareness waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) be guide adjusting lifestyle maintaining normal WHtR value. This study developed assessment device automatically calculates value, displays health status, suggests ideal wai...

WHO has estimated expected cases of T2DM to rise 57.2 million by the year 2025 and 80.9 2030. Since past two decades there been constant marked increase in prevalence diabetes urban population India with noticeable southern part India. The Prevalence ranges from 10-16 % region region. primary objective study was determine association between Indices using height, waist, hip, thigh, arm, wrist c...