Belly Fat Can Be More unsafe Than Obesity

Data analyzed was taken from Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The study also underlines the idea that while BMI has been useful in many ways, it remains an imperfect measurement.

The investigators found that normal weight adults with extra stomach fat had the worst long-term survival, regardless of BMI.

Genetics plays a role in apple shapes and waistlines tend to increase with age, so Neff and Klein advised even normal-weight people to pay attention if belts are getting tighter.

Obese women with central obesity on the other hand had a slightly higher mortality risk than normal-weight women with central obesity.

Of the 3,222 deaths were recorded in the study, 1,404 of these were due to heart disease. More surprisingly, men with normal BMI but high WHR were more likely to have died than women who were overweight and obese, and also had a high WHR.

Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, a cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic and lead author of the study, told USA Today, “Not all fat is equal”.

The study is a reminder of the limitations of assessing a person’s risk of heart disease or death with only the body mass index, or BMI, Cho said.

Excess belly fat has been proven worse than obesity, in a recent study published on November 10 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Although it’s always been proven that obesity is a serious health risk, those of normal build who proudly carry their beer guts may be at greater danger of cardiovascular disease and early death than those who are classified as obese. And, normal weight men with bigger bellies seemed to fare even worse than slender women with more tummy fat.

Having a “spare tyre” round the middle is more unsafe than simply being obese, research has shown.

To calculate your waist-to-hip ratio, measure your waist at its narrowest, and then divide that by the measure of your hips at their widest. “Our findings suggest that persons with normal-weight central obesity may represent an important target population for lifestyle modification and other preventive strategies”, he said.

They say we need more research on how central obesity develops in people with a normal BMI, and a better understanding of the effect of central obesity on health.

Physician Dr. G. Vijayakumar said, “We have more fat content in the weight than the Europeans whereas people in the West have more muscle weight than fat in the body”. 85 in women or greater than.

Visceral fat has been previously associated with insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes, higher levels of cholesterol and blood fats.

The abdominal fat is found around the important organs like liver, small intestine and pancreas that are the seats for production of hormones for body metabolism. A person with an “obese” BMI but a healthy WHR is, obviously, just heavy for their height, and there’s a good chance that healthy, lean muscle mass is the culprit. “The problem is that we don’t know how fat is going to accumulate”, he said.