Waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratio calculator

Waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio from tape measurements, with the WHO risk cut-offs, the NICE bands and the WHO waist size category.

更新于 已验证的示例:5

Midway between the lowest rib and the top of the hip bone, after breathing out
Around the widest part of the buttocks
Accepts 5'11" or 5 ft 11 in
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Waist-to-hip ratio
Waist-to-hip ratio: 0.86
小数位数:2;取最近值,等距时远离零
WHR risk (WHO)
Not increased
Waist-to-height ratio
0.49
WHtR band (NICE)
Healthy
Waist circumference risk (WHO)
Not increased
The WHO waist cut-offs were set for Europid populations; lower thresholds are often used for South Asian, Chinese and Japanese adults.

Your waist-to-hip ratio is 0.86 (not increased risk by the WHO cut-off of 0.90) and your waist is 49 % of your height (healthy by NICE's bands).

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHO, men)

Not increasedSubstantially increased0.60.91.20.86

Waist-to-height ratio (NICE)

Below 0.4HealthyIncreasedHigh0.30.40.50.60.80.49
计算方法 S
  1. Waist-to-hip ratio

    86100=0.8600  ⇒  <0.90\frac{86}{100} = 0.8600 \;\Rightarrow\; < 0.90

    Categories are read from the ratio rounded to 2 decimals, as displayed.

  2. Waist-to-height ratio

    86 cm175 cm=0.4914\frac{86\ \text{cm}}{175\ \text{cm}} = 0.4914

    NICE bands: 0.4–0.49 healthy, 0.5–0.59 increased, 0.6 or more high.

  3. Waist circumference

    86 cm against the WHO cut-offs of 94 cm (increased) and 102 cm (substantially increased) for men.

关于Waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratio calculator

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is waist circumference divided by hip circumference, and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is waist divided by height in the same unit. Both measure fat carried around the middle, which BMI misses. WHR is compared with the WHO 2008 cut-offs of 0.90 for men and 0.85 for women, and waist size alone with the WHO thresholds of 94 and 102 cm for men and 80 and 88 cm for women.

People use these ratios to screen for central obesity, which is linked to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. With the defaults, a man with an 86 cm waist, 100 cm hips and a height of 175 cm has a WHR of 0.86, below the WHO cut-off, and a WHtR of 0.49, inside NICE's healthy band of 0.4 to 0.49.

The cut-offs are population thresholds, mostly set in Europid adults, not diagnoses. They assume the WHO method: waist midway between the lowest rib and the top of the hip bone after a normal breath out.

计算示例

Boundary: man with WHR exactly 0.90

Sex (for the formula)
Male
Waist
90 cm
Hip
100 cm
高度
175 cm
Waist-to-hip ratio
0.90
WHR risk (WHO)
Substantially increased
Waist-to-height ratio
0.51
WHtR band (NICE)
Increased
Waist circumference risk (WHO)
Not increased

核验来源:Python 3.8 decimal: 90/100 = 0.90 meets the WHO ≥ 0.90 cut-off; 90/175 = 0.5143 is in NICE's 0.5–0.59 band; 90 cm ≤ 94 cm

Woman, waist 70, hip 98, 165 cm

Sex (for the formula)
Female
Waist
70 cm
Hip
98 cm
高度
165 cm
Waist-to-hip ratio
0.71
WHR risk (WHO)
Not increased
Waist-to-height ratio
0.42
WHtR band (NICE)
Healthy
Waist circumference risk (WHO)
Not increased

核验来源:Python 3.8 decimal: 70/98 = 0.7143 < 0.85; 70/165 = 0.4242 in NICE 0.4–0.49

Inches: waist 40, hip 38, 6 ft

Sex (for the formula)
Male
Waist
40 in
Hip
38 in
高度
6 ft
Waist-to-hip ratio
1.05
WHR risk (WHO)
Substantially increased
Waist-to-height ratio
0.56
Waist circumference risk (WHO)
Increased

核验来源:Python 3.8 decimal: 40/38 = 1.0526; 40/72 = 0.5556; 101.6 cm is above 94 cm but not above 102 cm (WHO)

Boundary: waist-to-height exactly 0.5

Sex (for the formula)
Male
Waist
85 cm
Hip
100 cm
高度
170 cm
Waist-to-height ratio
0.50
WHtR band (NICE)
Increased
Waist-to-hip ratio
0.85
WHR risk (WHO)
Not increased

核验来源:Hand calculation: 85/170 = 0.5, the start of NICE's 0.5–0.59 increased-risk band

常见问题

What is a healthy waist-to-hip ratio?

Below 0.90 for men and below 0.85 for women, the cut-offs at which a 2008 WHO expert consultation placed substantially increased risk of metabolic complications. A man with an 86 cm waist and 100 cm hips has 0.86, under the line; the same waist with 94 cm hips gives 0.91, over it. These are population thresholds, so a ratio near the line says little about one person on its own.

What waist size is a health risk?

WHO links a waist above 94 cm (37 in) in men and 80 cm (31.5 in) in women to increased risk of metabolic complications, and above 102 cm (40 in) and 88 cm (34.6 in) to substantially increased risk. These cut-offs come mainly from Europid populations. The International Diabetes Federation uses lower thresholds for South Asian and Chinese adults: 90 cm for men and 80 cm for women.

What is a good waist-to-height ratio?

Under 0.5, the basis of the public-health message to keep your waist to less than half your height. NICE's bands, added to its obesity guidance in 2022, are 0.4 to 0.49 healthy, 0.5 to 0.59 increased and 0.6 or more high central adiposity. A 2012 meta-analysis by Ashwell and colleagues found WHtR a better screen for cardiometabolic risk than waist circumference or BMI.

How do you measure waist and hip circumference?

WHO measures the waist midway between the lowest rib and the top of the hip bone at the end of a normal breath out, and the hips around the widest part of the buttocks, with the tape level and snug but not compressing the skin. The published cut-offs assume this method. Measuring at the navel gives a different number, and a 2 cm change in waist moves the ratio by 0.02 when hips are 100 cm.

“Waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratio calculator”有多准确?

准确性取决于输入值和方法的假设。十进制运算使用50位有效数字,但估算、数值方法和源数据的精度可能较低;显示时的舍入并不能消除这些限制。 已按独立来源核验的计算示例:5。 例如,“Boundary: man with WHR exactly 0.90”根据Python 3.8 decimal: 90/100 = 0.90 meets the WHO ≥ 0.90 cut-off; 90/175 = 0.5143 is in NICE's 0.5–0.59 band; 90 cm ≤ 94 cm进行核验。

这种方法出自哪里?

WHO. Waist circumference and waist–hip ratio: report of a WHO expert consultation, Geneva, 8–11 December 2008 (published 2011); NICE. Obesity: identification, assessment and management (CG189), 2022 update — waist-to-height ratio; Ashwell M, Gunn P, Gibson S. Waist-to-height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI. Obes Rev 2012;13:275–286.

关于此计算器

WHR=waisthip,WHtR=waistheight\text{WHR} = \frac{\text{waist}}{\text{hip}},\qquad \text{WHtR} = \frac{\text{waist}}{\text{height}}

来源

  1. WHO. Waist circumference and waist–hip ratio: report of a WHO expert consultation, Geneva, 8–11 December 2008 (published 2011)
  2. NICE. Obesity: identification, assessment and management (CG189), 2022 update — waist-to-height ratio
  3. Ashwell M, Gunn P, Gibson S. Waist-to-height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI. Obes Rev 2012;13:275–286

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