Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index
Figure 2
Mortality rate by WHtR decile (source: HALS).
WHtR is a significantly better predictor of mortality than BMI for males and females (i.e. steeper mortality gradient across the deciles for WHtR). Use of regression analysis showed that the difference in slopes between mortality rate and BMI (Figure 1) and WHtR (Figure 2) was statistically different (p<0.01).