Your waist size can help you understand your overall health. A larger waistline may indicate you're carrying more abdominal fat, which puts you at risk for obesity-related health conditions. Waist ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many types of cancer. However, new research to be presented at this year’s ...

While obesity remains a pressing public health threat, prevention and treatment are made difficult by the limits of the BMI to accurately measure excess adiposity, according to the study’s authors.

New research involving nearly 140,000 postmenopausal women reveals that measuring waist circumference alongside body mass index modestly improves the ability to predict mortality risk in older women.

A bulging belly might be linked to early physical decline and age-related infirmity. Researchers in Norway recently released a prospective cohort study that looked into the relation body mass indexes ...

In his letter, Dr Wiwanitkit (this issue) argued that measurement of waist circumference (WC) is subject to less error because only a single measurement is required ...