Your waist measurement can provide clues to your overall health. Learn how to measure waist circumference and what to do if you’re concerned.

Measuring Waist Circumference Should Be Part of Annual Checkups The research included a total of 3,959 Black Americans who were part of the long-term Jackson Heart Study at the University of ...

Should we be measuring waist circumference in our patients to assess risk? Is there a difference between high visceral fat and total body fat?

Measuring waist circumference may be an essential way to help predict who will develop diabetes among Black people with normal blood sugar levels, according to a new study. The problem is ...

Clinicians should evaluate waist circumference in addition to BMI when determining obesity-related cardiometabolic risks, according to a consensus statement published in Nature Reviews ...

Measuring your waist circumference can offer insight into your health, though, according to NBC News' Dr. Natalie Azar, most people do it incorrectly.

In a cross-sectional study, enlarged waist circumference was associated with a syndrome of lipid overaccumulation and increased mortality.

Some children and adolescents have abdominal obesity despite not having general obesity; therefore, measuring waist circumference in routine clinical practice would better identify those at ...

If waist circumference and body weight were increasing to the same extent, we would expect to see no difference in waist circumference over time.