<div dir="ltr">Mike Miller:<div><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>On Tue, 15 May 2012, Brian Wood wrote:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">>> </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9260091/Forget-BMI-just-measure-your-waist-and-height-say-scientists.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9260091/Forget-BMI-just-measure-your-<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">waist</span>-and-height-say-scientists.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> Thanks, Brian!  I did a little searching around for info about</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> waist</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">-to-height ratio (WHR) and how it compares with body mass index (BMI)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> as a predictor of various disease outcomes and mortality for different age</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> groups, etc.  It looks WHR does not work better for children.  But it may</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> be better for predicting cardiovascular disease in adults.  The</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> correlation of WHR with BMI is about .9, though, so they aren't very</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> different.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<div><br></div><div style>This seems to indicate there is a difference:</div><div style><br></div><div style><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10054519/Waist-to-height-ratio-more-accurate-than-BMI.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10054519/Waist-to-height-ratio-more-accurate-than-BMI.html</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">Brian<br>Ebenezer Enterprises - Many are the afflictions of the</div><div dir="ltr">righteous, but the L-rd delivers him from them all.<br><a href="http://webEbenezer.net" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a> <br>
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