{"id":13422,"date":"2023-09-29T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:10:18","slug":"waist-to-hip-ratio-tied-to-all-cause-mortality-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/waist-to-hip-ratio-tied-to-all-cause-mortality-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Waist-to-hip ratio tied to all-cause mortality risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-310966 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-929812 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-280376 kc_text_block\">\n<p>Research involving 387,672 UK Biobank participants found that waist-to-hip ratio was more consistently linked to all-cause mortality than measures of BMI and fat mass index, according to the findings published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FrkgADjuQiAvjnlkgfEdcesfCHMQL__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!h6ytVM4uBoL_b6k4v33ip5lTDcdur1CX3cQTtuBxjxwTJ86T0HIBX4Vp_zgH4l_mdPno1IGXNLREuXPdRkcomE5BWLXe%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C3274d19ab3c04d09996f08dbbf8e5957%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638314390373401752%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Fyqn05iloAYudwWB9VlFLKvNlSTjgwnIFT4Ds06bOx4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">JAMA Network Open<\/a>. Those with genetically determined waist-to-hip ratio had the strongest association with all-cause mortality, researchers say, adding that their &#8220;results provide further support to shift public health focus from measures of general adiposity, such as BMI, to adiposity distribution using WHR.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Full Story:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FrkgADjuQiAvjnljUfEdcesfCyJCa%3Fformat%3Dmultipart__%3B!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!h6ytVM4uBoL_b6k4v33ip5lTDcdur1CX3cQTtuBxjxwTJ86T0HIBX4Vp_zgH4l_mdPno1IGXNLREuXPdRkcomM64yxfS%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7C%7C3274d19ab3c04d09996f08dbbf8e5957%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C638314390373401752%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5QBwzxJxTw1KPEVOLhYixIQzdo9T9XxcxD7Q%2F0wv85U%3D&amp;reserved=0\">HealthDay News<\/a>\u00a0(9\/24)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13423,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions\/13423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}