BMI vs. waist circumference for identifying vascular risk. | Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Trials Evaluation

Freiberg MS, Pencina MJ, D'Agostino RB, Lanier K, Wilson PW, Vasan RS. BMI vs. waist circumference for identifying vascular risk. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2008 Feb;16(16). 463-9. PMID: 18239660 [PubMed]

Abstract

Current guidelines recommend measurement of both BMI and waist circumference (WC) in individuals with BMI between 25.0 and 34.9 kg/m(2). We investigated the relative contributions of BMI and WC toward identifying risk of adverse vascular events in a community-based sample.