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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...