«Social relationships seem to be as predictive of lifespan as smoking, and more
predictive than obesity and physical inactivity,» he says.
Writing in an early online edition of Circulation, Dr Dexter Canoy (University of Cambridge, UK) and colleagues report that increased abdominal
obesity — measured in terms of waist - to - hip ratio, was more «consistently and strongly»
predictive of coronary heart disease (CHD)
than BMI among men and women participating in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk (EPIC - NORFOLK) study.