A new study shows that obesity in the abdomen matters even more than obesity overall. The more bigger your belly, the greater will be your risk of developing a heart disease.
Waist circumference is mostly used to measure obesity in the abdominal area. There are several ways of measuring a person’s waist, but if your doctor or nurse evaluates with a caliper, it is likely to be more standardized and less prone to error.
Taking the Body mass index (BMI), to judge a person’s heart disease risk based on obesity, is wrong because muscular people tend to have a high BMI and be perfectly healthy.
The study was conducted by taking the sagittal abdominal diameter, or SAD, which is the distance from the back to the upper abdomen midway between the top of the pelvis and the bottom of the ribs.
It was observed that men with the largest SAD were 42 percent more likely to develop heart disease and a large SAD increased heart disease risk by 44 percent for women.
This relationship between SAD and heart disease risk was strongest among the youngest men and women, indicating that people who develop obesity younger in life are more likely to have serious problems.
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