This suggests that the elevated risk associated with abdominal ... For example, both an increase of about 12 cm in waist circumference (e.g., comparing WC of 91.8 cm vs. 80.0 cm) and an increase ...

This led the authors to suggest waist-circumference may be a more important ... heart disease and high blood pressure, according to the health service. The new study is just the latest to ...

Incremental cardiometabolic risk factors — particularly diabetes, hypertension and high waist circumstance — were linked to ...

Researchers have established in a new study that the weight-adjusted waist index is a much better predictor of age-related ...

and not explained by high body size alone, as measured by BMI. Among women, the associations were weaker and similar for both WC and BMI. For example, both an increase of about 12 cm in waist ...