Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,
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The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,Salim Yusuf
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.
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The global burden of obesity has been substantially underestimated by the reliance of BMI in previous studies.
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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.
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The future really is to find therapies that are just as effective, but safer,
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