Do waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio predict incident cardiovascular events?
Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio are significant predictors of incident cardiovascular events and should be incorporated into risk assessments.
WHR and WC are significantly associated with the risk of incident CVD events. These simple measures of abdominal obesity should be incorporated into CVD risk assessments.
Koning et al. (2007) studied this question.