Waist-to-height ratio
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Waist-to-height ratio
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A person's waist-to-height ratio – occasionally written WHtR – or called waist-to-stature ratio (WSR), is defined as their waist circumference divided by their height, both measured in the same units. It is used as a predictor of obesity-related cardiovascular disease. The WHtR is a measure of the distribution of body fat. Higher values of WHtR indicate higher risk of obesity-related cardiovascular diseases; it is correlated with abdominal obesity. More than twenty-five years ago, waist-to-heigh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-to-height_ratio
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2011-04-03T21:13:09Z
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2024-09-07T14:49:08Z
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