Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The measurement of wrist circumference in children and adolescents with obesity can help estimate CV risk, ...

Wrist size may be a better predictor of heart health than BMI for growing kids. April 12, 2011— -- Predicting an overweight child's risk of diabetes and heart disease may be as simple as ...

Measuring the wrist bone may be a new way to identify which overweight children and adolescents face an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to new research. Measuring the ...

ROME, April 13 (UPI) -- Measuring an obese or overweight child's wrist circumference is a better indicator of insulin resistance than body mass index, researchers in Italy say. Dr. Marco Capizzi and ...

A manual measure of wrist circumference was more closely linked to insulin parameters than BMI in a cohort of overweight or obese children and adolescents, according to new study results published in ...

There are already several different ways to tell if you’re at increased risk of heart disease — whether you’re overweight, or have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, for example — but ...