While body mass ... body size (such as waist circumference measurements) to get a better picture of your fat distribution. On average, women tend to have higher body fat percentages than men ...

Your ideal weight includes many factors such as your age, sex, height, medical conditions, body ... and waist measurements are screening tools. But in general, here are the guidelines for men ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

A major new study from Sweden has found that waist circumference (WC)—a simple measure of abdominal fat—may be a more ...

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Published in Obesity and ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Body mass index (BMI) was almost ...