Biomedical researchers find link to waist size and mortality
Tuesday 10th August 2010
A team of biomedical researchers in the US has published a study which revealed that adults with a larger waist circumference are at increased risk of death.
The report appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine and the research was carried out across a group of 48,500 men and 56,343 women between 1997 and 2006.
It focused on people in the 50 plus age group and revealed that mortality rates among people with a very high waist circumference, regardless of weight, increased two-fold.
According to the study, men with a waist size of more than 120 cm and women with a waist size of more than 110 cm were at the highest risk of dying.
Speaking to the BBC, Dr David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum (NOF), explained that the fat inside the stomach is "dangerous".
"Even if you have a normal BMI and a big tummy then you are just as much at risk as someone who is classified as obese with a large tummy," he stated.
According to the NOF, 27 per cent of children starting primary school are classified as overweight or obese, with the organisation striving to reduce childhood obesity and consequently reduce the number of health problems suffered by these individuals in future.
Written by Megan Smith
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