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 ...

Measuring an overweight child's wrist size appears to be a better predictor of diabetes and heart risk than calculating body mass index, new research suggests. Wrist size was strongly correlated with ...

Scientists in Italy have identified a link between wrist size and a major risk factor for diabetes and heart disease in overweight children . They found that levels of insulin resistance were related ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: How is frame size determined? I have wondered about that all my life. Many people say they can weigh more because they have a large frame. I would love to say I am not overweight, ...