We greatly appreciate the insightful suggestions and comments made by Dr. Eun-Jung Rhee [1] regarding our recent study, “Utility of the visceral adiposity index and hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype for predicting incident hypertension,” published in volume 32, issue 2 of Endocrinology and Metabolism [2]. We reported that the visceral adiposity index (VAI) and hypertriglyceridemic waist (HTG...

South Asians have a higher incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) than individuals of European descent1 and present with first acute myocardial infarction at younger ages.2 In the study by Joshi et al,2 among the several CHD risk factors that differentiated native South Asians from those living in other countries was an increase in abdominal obesity. Of interest in this context is the sugges...