![Belly Fat Linked to High Risk of Death in Coronary Heart Disease Patients Belly Fat Linked to High Risk of Death in Coronary Heart Disease Patients](https://images.medindia.net/health-images/1200_1000/BMI-waist-circumference.jpg)
The researchers collected data from five different studies involving nearly 16,000 people and calculated the distance around the hips and waist to measure the fat around the belly. They found that the risk of death increased by more than 75 percent among patients who had higher fat content in the waist compared to those with low fat content. This was true even among those patients who had a normal BMI.
“BMI is just a measure of weight in proportion to height. What seems to be more important is how the fat is distributed on the body”, Mayo Clinic’s Dr Thais Coutinho said. The report has been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Source-Medindia