Background Higher waist circumference and lower hip circumference are both associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, despite being directly correlated. The real effects of ...

Int J Epidemiol. 2012;41(2):484-494. Those who died from CVD or other causes were older and had higher levels of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio than survivors at study entry (Table 1).

Sam Setareh, MD, MS, FACC, a staff cardiologist at Beverly Hills Cardiovascular, says that having a high waist circumference ...

As the name itself indicates, Waist to Hip ratio, which is sometimes also known as waist- hip ratio or WHR is the ratio between the circumference of the waist and the hips of an individual. This ratio ...