“BMI-based assessment of obesity does not comprehensively evaluate [cardiovascular disease] risk, and central adiposity measures meaningfully refine [cardiovascular disease] risk estimation across BMI levels.”
A large-scale study in JACC demonstrating that waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio are better predictors of cardiovascular risk than BMI alone, prompting widespread discussion on revising clinical practice.
Dardari et al. (Sat,) studied this question.