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Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence

• WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
  When I think risk of heart attack, I think of genetics first. Heart attacks seem fairly unlikely in my family. There's not even a rumor of an instance. Contrasting that is a friend who's family were cursed with a precondition. The men died of heart attacks before their ~45th birthday. My friend dropped dead waiting to pay his restaurant bill with two paramedics standing in line behind him. I met his younger brother at the funeral. He was in his early 40s and was the last living male over 40, anywhere in his tree.
  • hombre_fatal 1y ago
    Well that would be depressing. Was it familial hypercholesterolemia? Whatever it is, I bet you’d have to start a pharmaceutical intervention in your teenage years just to have a shot long term. Like the opposite of those people with the mutation where they never lay down arterial plaque.
• Arnt 1y ago
  "When WtHR was categorised into quartiles, individuals with the highest values of WtHR (median of 0.65) had a significantly higher risk of HF compared with individuals in the other three quartile" 180cm height corresponds to 117cm waist in the relevant quartile. Considerable.