Waist circumference is directly related to all-cause mortality when adjusted for body mass index (BMI). Body fat and fat-free body mass, when mutually adjusted, show with increasing values an ...

Waist circumference is an underused but useful "vital sign" of an individual's health. That's according to experts, who said losing weight in this area is an important way for people to reduce the ...

To test the validity of internationally accepted waist circumference (WC) action levels for adult Asian Indians. We hypothesized that waist circumference action levels for Asian Indians are lower than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with large waist circumference had a greater risk for death across all BMI categories. Researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Calf circumference, higher BMI and age are predictors of falls among older patients on hemodialysis, according ...

Objective Low body fat and high physical activity levels are key lifestyle factors in cancer prevention, but the interplay of abdominal obesity and physical activity on cancer risk remains unknown. We ...

Waist circumference could be as important as body mass index (BMI) in terms of managing people’s health and lowering the risk of obesity-related illness, a new statement has suggested. The consensus ...

Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...

The circumference of a circle is the distance around the shape. The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures means that answers can be written to ...