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The waist hip ratio is one of the best way to determine the abdominal obesity and whether you are at an increased health risk. It has been found to be more effective predictor of risk of non communicable diseases in older people than Body Mass Index.
For measuring Waist Hip Ratio-
- relax your muscles
- keep a stretch resistant tape around the waist at one inch above naval, during normal expiration and measure it
- keep the tape around the widest portion of buttocks and measure it
- repeat the measurement twice, if it is with in 1 cm of one another, take the average.
- check waist/hip ratio
The abdominal obesity is defined as waist hip ratio above 0.90 for males and above 0.85 for females, indicates that they are at increased health risk because of their fat distribution.
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