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New obesity definitions reclassify many MASLD patients as obese but do not improve prediction of liver-related events over BMI alone, according to a multinational cohort study.
A 19-year Finnish cohort study found that a higher waist-to-height ratio was linked to increased coronary artery disease risk in type 1 diabetes, especially in people without albuminuria.
In the HUNT Study, higher midlife waist-to-height ratio and BMI predicted higher late-life plasma p-tau217 and biomarker-verified Alzheimer dementia, whereas higher adiposity in late life was associated with lower biomarker levels and lower
A pooled analysis of 21,479 HFpEF/HFmrEF patients reveals that waist-to-height ratio is a superior, linear predictor of mortality and heart failure events compared to BMI. Even in non-obese BMI categories, nearly 90% of patients exhibit exc
