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Most of us think of obesity as a problem of rich and western industrialized countries. But our data shows that it also affects low and middle income countries especially people living in cities,
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Our findings suggest that substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world.
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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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(Angioplasty) is at least a reasonable alternative to (drug) therapy in high-risk patients, and in expert hands, may be preferred in patients prone to stroke, such as the elderly,
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The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,
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Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,
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This means a short-term therapy that is just as effective at preventing events but is much safer translates in the long term to an important difference,
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The best index of obesity as a predictor of myocardial infarction is the waist-to-hip ratio,
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I don't think there is anything magic about this ratio, except that it's a window to the balance between muscle and fat. Around the waist there is no large muscle.
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