Salim Yusuf Quotes (8 Quotes)

The global burden of obesity has been substantially underestimated by the reliance of BMI in previous studies.

I don't think there is anything magic about this ratio, except that it's a window to the balance between muscle and fat. Around the waist there is no large muscle.

The future really is to find therapies that are just as effective, but safer,

Most of us think of obesity as a problem of rich and western industrialized countries. But our data shows that it also affects low and middle income countries especially people living in cities,

BMI is a very weak predictor of the risk of a heart attack. Measuring the girth of the waist and (the) girth of the hip is far more powerful.

What we know is that fat in the abdomen, which is associated with a larger waist, is metabolically active and produces various hormones that can cause harmful effects, such as causing diabetes, affecting blood pressure, affecting lipid blood fat levels, ... Fat in the abdomen may also relate to fat in the liver, and that makes the liver not function well.

The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,

Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,