Every extra inch around the waist increases the risk of heart failure by about 10 percent, according to one study.
The researchers measured the waistlines of 428,000 middle-aged British adults and compared it to their heart health over a 13-year period.
For each extra centimeter, the participants’ probability of being admitted to the hospital with problems of heart failure, including heart attacks, increased 4 percent. It means that a person with a waist of 41 inches (104 cm) is about 40 percent more likely to have heart failure than a person with a waist of 37 inches (94 cm).
The study, from the University of Oxford, revealed that waist size is a better indicator of heart risks caused by obesity than other metrics such as body
