The results tracked closely with the earlier study, which used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), conducted in the US between 1999 and 2004.
This provides stronger evidence that ABSI is a valid indicator of the risk of premature death across different populations.
Further, they showed that ABSI outperformed commonly used measures of abdominal obesity, including waist circumference, waist-hip and height ratio.
Also, because the data came from two surveys seven years apart, the researchers were able to assess the effect of change in ABSI on mortality.
