“Those individuals with normal weight or overweight and clinically defined high WC or WHR were associated with a 15% - 50% greater risk for most of the nine studied outcomes.”
260,000 people tracked for an average of 20 years. That is a large enough dataset that the finding is hard to wave off. The practical damage is that a normal BMI has been treated as a clean bill of cardiovascular health for decades. A tape measure costs nothing and apparently tells you more than the number every clinic actually records.