Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), also ... such as a person’s age, menstruation status, and ethnicity. BMI is a calculation of a person’s body fat based on their height and weight.

BMI has been used to measure a person’s health since the early 1970s. Over the last few years, researchers have been examining waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) as a potential replacement for BMI.

To determine how much you should weigh (your ideal body weight) several factors should be considered, including age, muscle-fat ratio, height ... and that waist-hip ratio is a better method.

The NHS advises to people to look at their waist to height ratio rather than just their wait circumference to determine if they have a healthy level of body fat. To do so, use a tape measure ...

The UK National Institute for Health Care ... followed up from age 9 to 24. Of the 1,431 children classified as ...

“Therefore, we proposed a new nomenclature based on waist-to-height ratio assessment of adiposity that can be used by health care professionals ... were collected at age 9, 15 and 24 years.