metaboliqWaist to hip ratio calculator: where your weight sits
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- Your waist divided by your hip. The WHO line is 0.90 for men, 0.85 for women
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Whatever the ratio, a home panel measures your blood sugar, lipids and liver, and a doctor reads them with you.
Book my blood panel — ₹999How this is worked out
- Waist-to-hip cut-offs, 0.90 for men and 0.85 for women: World Health Organization, Waist circumference and waist-hip ratio: report of a WHO expert consultation, Geneva, 2008.
- Waist-to-height bands, 0.5 and 0.6: the NICE obesity guideline (CG189), as updated in 2022.
An estimate from a published formula, not a diagnosis. Your doctor decides your plan.
Your measurements never leave this phone: the calculation runs in your browser and we do not record it.
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The tape shows where. Your blood tells the rest.
A home blood panel shows how your sugar, lipids and liver are handling it.
- Measured at home, one morning visit
- A doctor reads every number with you
- Food and strength training built around you
From a ratio to your plan
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Questions, answered
What is the waist to hip ratio?
Your waist measurement divided by your hip measurement, both in the same unit. A waist of 80 cm and hips of 100 cm give a ratio of 0.80. It describes where your body keeps its weight: around the middle, or lower down.
How do I measure my waist and hips?
With a soft tape, standing relaxed, at the end of a normal breath out. The waist goes around at the navel, the hips around the widest part of the buttocks. Keep the tape level and snug without pressing in, and measure twice.
What is a healthy waist to hip ratio?
The World Health Organization's expert consultation (2008) uses 0.90 for men and 0.85 for women: at or over that line, it links the ratio to a substantially higher chance of metabolic complications. Under it is the range it describes as lower.
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What is the waist to height ratio?
Your waist divided by your height. NICE, which writes England's clinical guidelines, describes 0.4 to 0.49 as healthy, 0.5 to 0.59 as increased and 0.6 or more as high central fat, with the same lines for everyone. Add your height to the calculator to see yours.
Is the waist-hip ratio different for South Asian adults?
The WHO ratio cut-offs are the same for everyone. For the waist alone, the Indian consensus guidance (Misra and colleagues, 2009) uses lower lines for Asian Indians than Western ones: 90 cm for men and 80 cm for women, because fat around the middle tends to show up at a smaller size.
Why measure the waist and hips, and not just weight?
Weight and BMI tell you size, not where fat sits. Fat stored around the waist and organs says more about metabolic health than the same weight carried on the hips and thighs, and the tape picks that up where the scale cannot.
Is anything I type stored?
No. Your measurements stay on your device: the division runs in your browser and is never sent.
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