Waist size is a good indicator of a person's risk of insulin resistance - an early stage in the development of diabetes and heart disease, researchers said on Friday (15 April). Waist circumference is already recognised as an independent sign of potential cardiovascular disease but Swedish scientists said it can also be used to gauge sensitivity to insulin.
"A waist circumference of less than 100 cm (39 inches) excludes individuals of both sexes from being at risk of being insulin resistant," Hans Wahrenberg, of the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, said in a study reported online by the British Medical Journal.
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