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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

The report

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI is a developing story worth watching.

What changes

Hacker News highlights this story because it changes the calculus for actors watching abdominal, fat, predicts, heart, disease.

The setting

Looking back, Hacker News and others have reported on the conditions that made abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than bmi possible.

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Our read: abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than bmi is one data point in a longer pattern that Hacker News and others are tracing.

Source note

Hacker News reporting: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi

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