"In men, an increase of 1 standard deviation (10.8 cm) in waist circumference was associated with a 25% increase in the risk ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

The neck circumference could an initial screening tool someday, Nafiu said. But he wrote additional studies are needed to evaluate how useful it is in detecting abdominal fat. "If a neck ...

The authors explain: “BMI is a measure of body size, but does not provide information on fat distribution, whereas waist circumference is a proxy more closely related to abdominal adiposity. This ...

Those who fall outside the maximum weight allowed for their height are first presented with a single-site abdominal circumference measurement, in which a proctor uses a tape measure to take a ...

Abdominal obesity is where fat accumulates around the abdomen and internal organs there, leading to a larger-than-normal waist circumference. Abdominal obesity has been shown to place people at a ...