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

Autor: Nevill AM; Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus, Walsall WS1 3BD, UK. Electronic address: a.m.nevill@wlv.ac.uk., Duncan MJ; Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK., Myers T; Newman University, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Obesity research & clinical practice [Obes Res Clin Pract] 2022 Jul-Aug; Vol. 16 (4), pp. 277-280. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2022.08.002
Abstrakt: 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.
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