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A person’s waistline measurement can indicate an individual’s current or future health prospects. An individual can measure their waist with a tape measure between the hip bone and the bottom of the ...

The World Health Organization's current weight-based guidelines for assessing malnutrition in children with diarrhea are not as reliable as measuring the child's upper arm circumference, new research ...

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Adam C. Levine, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital found that the World Health Organization's current weight-based guidelines for assessing malnutrition in children with ...