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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Its authors call for a paradigm shift in the assessment of obesity and suggest the use of more accurate indicators, such as waist-to-height ratio or muscle strength tests. “The use of BMI ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said an additional waist-to-height ratio measurement will be taken for people with a BMI below 35 - to flag those not carrying lots of ...

BMI is an outdated measure of health, say experts – there’s a raft of checks that could give a clue to your current wellbeing ...

Its authors call for a paradigm shift in the assessment of obesity and suggest the use of more accurate indicators, such as waist-to-height ratio or muscle strength tests. “The use of BMI becomes ...