Waist-to-hip ratio and health risk band.
Free to use, no sign-up required. Waist-Hip Ratio is one of 198 tools built into Xenition, alongside a chat that can use them for you.
Calculates your waist-to-hip ratio and places it in a low, moderate or high health-risk band, with general diet, lifestyle and exercise suggestions. It is a quick way to check where body fat sits.
The ratio is waist divided by hip, shown to two decimals. For men it is Low below 0.90, Moderate from 0.90 and High from 1.00. For women it is Low below 0.80, Moderate from 0.80 and High from 0.85. These bands follow WHO guidance; the result is an estimate, not medical advice.
A waist of 85 cm and hips of 100 cm give a ratio of 0.85: Low for a man, but High for a woman, whose threshold starts lower.
Fat around the abdomen is linked more strongly to heart disease and type 2 diabetes than fat on the hips and thighs, so two people with the same weight can carry different risk.
It measures something different. BMI reflects overall size, while waist-to-hip ratio shows where fat is carried; many clinicians look at both.
You do not have to open Waist-Hip Ratio to use it. Ask Xenition in plain language and it runs the right tool, then carries the answer into whatever you are working on — a document, a spreadsheet, a deck.