"Contrary to previously published studies comparing BMI and waist circumference, the presence of abdominal fat improved the ability to predict for cardiovascular disease, supporting the hypothesis that abdominal fat may partially underlie the association of body fat and heart disease and cancer," said Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH, senior author of the study and a senior investigator at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Laboratory for Metabolic and Population Health in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The study relied on CT (computed tomography) scans to locate areas of fat deposits in 3,086 subjects, whose average age was 50 years. Nearly 50 percent of the subjects were women, and all of the participants were followed for up to seven years.
A waist size of 80 centimeters or larger for a woman and 101 centimeters for a man is considered risky, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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