Formula Governance
Waist-to-Height Ratio Calculator — Change Log
Every formula on HealthCalcNow is version-controlled. This page records the formula behind the Waist-to-Height Ratio Calculator — its current version, the source it comes from, and any revision made since publication.
Current version
Reference. Waist-to-height ratio boundary values — Ashwell & Hsieh (Int. J. Food Sci. Nutr., 2005); Ashwell, Gunn & Gibson (Obesity Reviews meta-analysis, 2012)
Why this confidence level. Simple, widely-validated screen for central-adiposity risk (often at least as predictive as BMI); still a screen, not a diagnosis.
Revision history
How we version formulas
A calculator's math lives in an isolated module with its own version number. Changing anything that affects a result — a coefficient, a category cutoff, a rounding rule, or the cited source — requires a version bump and an entry on this page. We don't silently edit formulas.
A last-reviewed date is different from a revision: it records when we last checked the formula against its published source and confirmed it still matches. A formula can be reviewed many times without changing.
We take our values from published public-health and scientific sources rather than deriving them ourselves, and we don't claim clinician review that hasn't happened. Read more in our methodology.