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- They should use skeletal length instead of height to account for spine curvature disorders.
- I’ve gained about 15 lbs from my younger days and lost 2” from the waist. Stomach sticks out now, didn’t back then.
So - progress ?!?!
Almost seems saying “floor breaking when stepped on strongly correlated with arterial blockage.”
by BobbyTables2 - If you're at the point where waist to height ratio vs BMI is something you debate about, you're already too fatby tekla
- Original article: "Waist-to-height ratio and coronary artery calcium incidence: the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)" - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...by bikenaga
- No way, a measure of fat around your midsection is a better predictor than height and weight, not accounting at all for composition?by Graziano_M