BMI is dead; long live waist-circumference indices: But which index should we choose to predict cardio-metabolic risk?

Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

(2020) Robert Ross et al.   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

The Link between Height and Cardiovascular Disease: To Be Deciphered

(2019) Jeonggeun Moon et al.   CARDIOLOGY

Associations of short stature and components of height with incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating effects of cardiometabolic risk factors

(2019) Clemens Wittenbecher et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

GAMLSS: A distributional regression approach

(2018) Mikis D Stasinopoulos et al.   STATISTICAL MODELLING

Is waist circumference more strongly associated with metabolic risk factors in Asians than waist-to-height ratio?

(2018) Shalini Ponnalagu et al.   NUTRITION

Association between adult height, myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke and death: a Korean nationwide population-based study

(2017) Chan Soon Park et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

The use and interpretation of anthropometric measures in cancer epidemiology: A perspective from the world cancer research fund international continuous update project

(2016) Elisa V. Bandera et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

Scaling waist girth for differences in body size reveals a new improved index associated with cardiometabolic risk

(2016) A. M. Nevill et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS

Pathophysiology of Human Visceral Obesity: An Update

(2013) André Tchernof et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Waist-to-height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI for adult cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) M. Ashwell et al.   Obesity Reviews

The unethical use of BMI in contemporary general practice

(2010) Stephen Humphreys   BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE

Waist circumference as an indicator of adiposity and the relevance of body height

(2010) R.F. Burton   MEDICAL HYPOTHESES

Adult height and the risks of cardiovascular disease and major causes of death in the Asia-Pacific region: 21 000 deaths in 510 000 men and women

(2009) C. M. Y. Lee et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY