Waist watchers

26 March 2009

A study part-funded by us shows that larger waistlines significantly increase the risk of death. Researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke and colleagues looked at waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio for almost 360 000 individuals from nine European countries over a ten-year period.

Reference

Pischon T et al. General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe. N Engl J Med 2008;359(20):2105-20.