Salim Yusuf Quotations

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,

The best index of obesity as a predictor of myocardial infarction is the waist-to-hip ratio,

The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,

(Angioplasty) is at least a reasonable alternative to (drug) therapy in high-risk patients, and in expert hands, may be preferred in patients prone to stroke, such as the elderly,

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.

Our findings suggest that substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world.

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.

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

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