NICE's recent guidelines on "the size of your waist" unfairly penalizes shorter people

Alan M Nevill; Michael J Duncan; Tony Myers

doi:10.1016/j.orcp.2022.08.002

NICE's recent guidelines on "the size of your waist" unfairly penalizes shorter people

Alan M Nevill, Michael J Duncan, Tony Myers

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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has just released its latest guidelines to assess and predict health risk, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension or cardiovascular disease. Their latest advice is "Keep the size of your waist to less than half of your height". We believe this advice is flawed and will seriously and unfairly penalize shorter people and lull taller people into a false sense of security. In this short communication, we provide this evidence. We consider this a serious oversight by NICE and feel strongly that this evidence needs to be made available in the public domain. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2022 Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	277-280
Number of pages	4
Journal	Obesity research & clinical practice
Volume	16
Issue number	4
Early online date	9 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2022.08.002
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

Chi-square tests of independence
Cut-off points
Waist “independent-of-height” ratio
Chi-square tests for linear trend

UN SDGs

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NICE's recent guidelines on "the size of your waist" unfairly penalizes shorter people

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