Salim Yusuf Quotations

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,

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

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.

(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,

The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,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

This means a short-term therapy that is just as effective at preventing events but is much safer translates in the long term to an important difference,

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

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

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