M aintaining a low waist-to-hip ratio in middle age could mean a better chance at staying mentally sharp in later life, researchers have concluded after studying several decades of health data for ...

Of the 1,431 children classified as BMI-overweight at age 9 years, 25% had waist-to-height ratio of high fat, 11% had ...

Agbaje assessed BMI and waist-to-height ratio for 7,600 children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) birth cohort in the U.K. Data were collected at age 9, 15 and 24 years.

Over the last few years, researchers have been examining waist-to-hip ratio (WHR ... may have better brain and cognitive health in older age. Since the term “body mass index” or BMI was ...