THE size of a man’s waist may be a better indicator of his likelihood of developing cancer than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

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.

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...

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

A rise male BMI was only linked to 19 per cent increase in the risk of cancer. This led the authors to suggest waist-circumference may be a more important measure of obesity-related cancer risk in ...

For decades, body mass index has been the go-to metric for defining healthy weight ranges, but its usefulness as a reliable ...

"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." Overall, the researchers ...

The size of a man’s waistband is a better predictor of cancer risk than traditional body mass index measurements, research ...

Tools such as BMI, waist circumference, and body composition analysis all take weight into account to help measure overall health, but each is only one slice of the whole picture. To get to a ...

A major new study from Sweden has found that waist circumference (WC)—a simple measure of abdominal fat—may be a more ...

Body fat percentage is a measure of how much body fat ... methods of determining body fat that consider waist circumference may be better than BMI at evaluating metabolic and cardiovascular ...

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 ...