A new study on the worldwide prevalence of ‘abdominal obesity’ tied belly fat in ‘normal’ weight people to hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol.

A new study suggests your weight-to-height ratio may reveal heart disease risk more accurately than BMI. Subjects with larger ...

Monitoring your health begins with understanding your body composition, and one of the simplest ways to do that is by using a BMI calculator.

The ratio of a person's waist measurement compared to their height is more reliable than body mass index (BMI) at predicting ...

While obesity is a known risk factor for heart disease, a new study showed that the ratio of a person's waist measurement ...

For decades, BMI (body mass index) has been the go-to number doctors use to decide whether someone is underweight, "normal," overweight or obese. But new global research suggests it's possible to have ...

A large study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas shows that waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a stronger and ...

New research suggests Body Mass Index might miss heart disease risks. A study found waist-to-height ratio better predicts cardiovascular problems, eve ...

Prediabetes has long been thought to lead to type 2 diabetes, but according to new Deakin research, for some that isn't ...