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Jane Kirby & Nicola Roy

Tummy fat better than BMI at 'predicting early death' in new study

Medical experts have suggested that ditching BMI and focusing more on waist-to-hip ratio could help keep health problems at bay.

BMI is a measure of your weight to your height, and is often used to determine if a person is overweight or obese.

But data presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm found that measuring stomach fat is a much better predictor of early death than looking at BMI.

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