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Waist-to-height ratio
Anthropometric & Body CompositionPhysical parameterriskmodifiable
12
evidence score
Also known as: Waist-height ratio, waist-height ratio, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR)
PREVENT status
Not a PREVENT input variable.
Causal support
observational only
Score components
lit volume: 11.5meta-analyses: 0trials: 0genetic: 0MR bonus:
References (13)
0 meta-analyses / systematic reviews- Association between triglyceride-glucose (TyG) related indices and cardiovascular diseases and mortality among individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a cohort study of UK Biobank. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2025 · PMID 39806394
- Chronic financial stress and cardiovascular disease risk: A prospective cohort study and Mendelian randomization analysis. — Atherosclerosis 2025 · PMID 40743770
- Joint effects of triglyceride glucose index and its obesity-related derivatives with estimated glucose disposal rate on cardiometabolic multimorbidity in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a nationwide cohort study. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2025 · PMID 41039463
- Insulin resistance-related indices, genetic risk, and the risk of cardiovascular disease in individuals with preclinical or clinical obesity: a large prospective cohort study in the UK biobank. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2025 · PMID 41139206
- Association between triglyceride-glucose related indices with the all-cause and cause-specific mortality among the population with metabolic syndrome. — Cardiovascular diabetology 2024 · PMID 38658993
- Visceral adiposity indices and cardiometabolic risk markers in patients with hypertension. — Archives of endocrinology and metabolism 2022 · PMID 36468922
- Serum endothelin-1 level positively correlates with waist and hip circumferences in stable coronary artery disease patients. — Reviews in cardiovascular medicine 2021 · PMID 34565091
- Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk in urban South Asia: The CARRS Study. — European journal of preventive cardiology 2015 · PMID 25917221
- Association of cystatin C with measures of obesity and its impact on cardiovascular events among healthy US adults. — Metabolic syndrome and related disorders 2014 · PMID 25118891
- Adiposity markers and risk of coronary heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. — Nutrition journal 2014 · PMID 25539716
- Waist-height ratio as a predictor of coronary heart disease among women. — Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2009 · PMID 19289960
- Waist-to-height ratio and coronary artery disease in Taiwanese type 2 diabetic patients. — Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2008 · PMID 18927550
- Abdominal obesity and coronary heart disease in Thai men. — Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2007 · PMID 17426340
Clinical trials (0)
None linked.
Genetic associations (0)
None linked.