To identify the appropriate visceral adipose tissue (VAT) cutoff values for the diagnosis of abdominal obesity in predicting diabetes and the corresponding waist circumference in the Chinese ...

Twelve weeks after the final treatment, researchers observed a mean reduction of 1.2 cm in abdominal fat using a 200W high-power, bipolar radiofrequency combined with infrared optical energies and ...

New study lends more evidence that it's better to be shaped like a pear as opposed to an apple -- with weight around the abdomen. A new study from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in ...

Int J Epidemiol. 2012;41(2):484-494. Those who died from CVD or other causes were older and had higher levels of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio than survivors at study entry (Table 1). Hip ...

Obesity and risk classification for recurrence in clinically localized prostate cancer. Background: Increased visceral adiposity has been proposed as a risk factor for prostate cancer and a greater ...

Low fitness is associated with a larger waist size and a higher degree of inflammation, according to a new study. Low fitness is associated with a larger waist size and a higher degree of inflammation ...

Waist circumference is an underused but useful "vital sign" of an individual's health. That's according to experts, who said losing weight in this area is an important way for people to reduce the ...