In the U.S., the average woman's waist size is about 38.5 inches, which is above the 35-inch threshold that health experts ...

New data suggest that after adjusting adiposity and body weight measurements for height the strongest predictor of hypertension is waist circumference, and not total fat mass and body weight. In ...

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 ...

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a cardiologist urges people to know a key body measurement that's associated with cardiovascular disease and predicts mortality.

Nov. 7, 2003 — Enlarged waist circumference is associated with a syndrome of lipid overaccumulation and increased mortality, according to the results of a cross-sectional study published in the ...

A new long-term study suggests that waist circumference, rather than the commonly used body mass index measure, is the best clinical measure to predict a child's risk for cardiovascular disease and ...

Obesity has long been established as a risk factor for cancer, particularly when it’s stored in certain areas of the body. Now, new research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk ...

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 ...

To compare waist circumference (a measure of central fatness) and body mass index (BMI, a measure of general fatness) between a contemporary cohort and similar aged British children measured in 1987.

The average waist size for men in the U.S. is 40.6 inches. This is also the threshold experts use to define abdominal obesity ...