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. Published in Obesity and ...

The following is a summary of “Association between waist-to-height ratio and insulin resistance in patients with polycystic ...

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

Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), also known as waist-hip ratio ... BMI is a calculation of a person’s body fat based on their height and weight. However, studies suggest it is a poor indicator of ...

However, body mass index (BMI), which is traditionally used to measure excess weight, was not as accurate in assessing ... people to look at their waist to height ratio rather than just their ...

waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios, and direct body fat measurements for a more accurate assessment. This suggests that many of the 17.6 million Britons classified as obese under the decades ...

Maintaining a low waist-to-hip ratio in middle age could mean a better chance at staying mentally sharp in later life, researchers have concluded after studying several decades of health data for ...

The authors said it was more accurate to measure waist circumference ... It comes after Nice told NHS medics to measure people’s waist-to-height ratio as well as BMI when diagnosing obesity.

Annual monitoring of BMI and waist-to-height ratio is a powerful tool to help prevent problems developing such as the onset of diabetes, heart disease or other obesity-related conditions.