Waist-to-height ratio (WtHR)
Waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) is tool that might predict the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and overall mortality more effectively than BMI.
A person whose waist measurement is less than half their height has a lower risk of a number of life-threatening health complications.
Measure your waist-to-height ratio:
A person's height
A person's height should be at least twice their waist measurement for a healthy WtHR.
To calculate the WtHR, a person should divide their waist size by their height. If the answer is 0.5 or less, the chances are that they have a healthy weight.
A woman who is 5 feet and 4 inches tall (163 cm), should have a waist measurement below 32 inches (81 cm).
A man who is 6 feet or 183 centimeters (cm) tall, should have a waist measurement below 36 inches or 91 cm.
These measurements will give a WtHR of just under 0.5.
In a study published in 2014 in Plos One, researchers concluded that WtHR was a better predictor of mortality than BMI.
The authors also cited findings from another study — involving statistics for around 300,000 people from different ethnic groups — which concluded that WHtR is better than BMI at predicting heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and hypertension.
This suggests that the WHtR could be a useful screening tool.
Measurements that take waist size into account can be good indicators of a person's health risks because fat that collects around the middle can be harmful for the heart, kidneys, and liver.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that a man with a waist size of 40 inches or above, or a woman with a waist size of 35 inches or above has a higher risk than other people of:
type 2 diabetes
high blood pressure
coronary artery disease
This does not, however, take a person's height or hip size into consideration.
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