Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO You should measure your waist between the lowest rib and the top of your hip.Avoid ...

Get out the measuring tape. Your waist-to-hip ratio may beat the scale at predicting heart disease, a British study shows. The study is the latest research linking belly fat to heart risk. The ...

The relationship between belly size and hip size appears to be a more useful measure of health risk than the widely used body-mass index, or BMI. According to a study published in The Lancet, a ...

Is your health in danger? It’s difficult to make health/disease-risk assessments (notably cardiovascular and obesity-related diseases) on a national or international scale. The best tests are usually ...

As the name itself indicates, Waist to Hip ratio, which is sometimes also known as waist- hip ratio or WHR is the ratio between the circumference of the waist and the hips of an individual. This ratio ...

The waist to hip ratio calculator gives determines the possibility of health risks and is an indication of whether you have an apple or pear shaped figure. The waist to hip ratio measurement is ...

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

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether waist and hip circumferences, in addition to body mass index (BMI), are related to all-cause mortality. We studied these associations and tested the usefulness of the ...

A woman's attractiveness relates to the size of her waist compared with her hips, it has been found. Scientists have discovered the ratio which, they say, makes for the perfect figure, reports The ...

A new study suggests that for women who have recently gone through menopause, having more fat stored around the midsection is ...

Prague, Czech Republic - In the latest effort to improve the ability of body-mass measurements to predict mortality, Swedish researchers are proposing that a third measurement—height—be added to the ...