Want to gauge your risk for developing Type 2 diabetes? Don’t just step on the scale — reach for a measuring tape too, a new study suggests. The circumference of your waist can tell you a lot about ...

Nov. 7, 2003 — Enlarged waist circumference is associated with a syndrome of lipid overaccumulation and increased mortality, according to the results of a cross-sectional study published in the ...

The World Health Organization's current weight-based guidelines for assessing malnutrition in children with diarrhea are not as reliable as measuring the child's upper arm circumference, new research ...

A study concludes that including waist circumference measurements in clinical practice, together with the traditional height and weight measurements, would make it easier to detect children and ...

A quick and easy way to know if you are at risk for heart attacks or diabetes is to get out your tool box. A quick and easy way to know if you are at risk for heart attacks or diabetes is to get out ...

Yes; careful statistical analysis has demonstrated that waist circumference is not only an important and easily measured marker for the metabolic syndrome, but it also captures new information. Why is ...

The body mass index (BMI) isn’t a perfect measure for obesity. Convenience and routine are on its side -- so health experts aren’t likely to stop using it any time soon -- but its limitations have got ...

Do you know how to measure the diameter of the earth? No? Then you’re less advanced than they were in 230 BC. You’re basically a Neanderthal with access to a microwave. Find out how to fix that in ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of age on the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), and the usefulness of BMI, WC and waist–hip ratio (WHR) in predicting mortality ...

Barcelona, 28th January 2014. A study led by researchers from IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and published in the journal Plos One concludes that including waist circumference ...

Adam C. Levine, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital found that the World Health Organization's current weight-based guidelines for assessing malnutrition in children with ...