Mike Miller: >On Tue, 15 May 2012, Brian Wood wrote: > >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9260091/Forget-BMI-just-measure-your- waist-and-height-say-scientists.html > > > Thanks, Brian! I did a little searching around for info about > waist-to-height ratio (WHR) and how it compares with body mass index (BMI) > as a predictor of various disease outcomes and mortality for different age > groups, etc. It looks WHR does not work better for children. But it may > be better for predicting cardiovascular disease in adults. The > correlation of WHR with BMI is about .9, though, so they aren't very > different. > This seems to indicate there is a difference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10054519/Waist-to-height-ratio-more-accurate-than-BMI.html -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the L-rd delivers him from them all. http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130514/212e04fd/attachment.html>