The number on the scale is not enough. To better understand health risks, it also matters where fat accumulates, and fat ...

Objective Low body fat and high physical activity levels are key lifestyle factors in cancer prevention, but the interplay of abdominal obesity and physical activity on cancer risk remains unknown. We ...

A major hindrance in setting uniformly applicable criteria for waist circumference or identification of abdominal obesity is heterogeneity in total mass and composition of skeletal muscles, ...

In a Journal of the American Geriatrics Society analysis of nationally representative data from 6,905 U.S. adults age 65 or older followed from 2011 to 2024, higher body mass index (BMI) was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A greater waist-calf circumference ratio was associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cause-specific ...