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 ...

An accurate assessment of low birth weight (LBW) and gestational age (GA) is critical in improving neonatal outcomes, particularly in settings where conventional measuring tools may not be readily ...

As with porridge, so with blood pressure: Just right makes all the difference. People whose mid-upper arm circumference exceeds 32 cm require larger cuffs than the standard size, but in many cases the ...

SAGAMIHARA, JAPAN — Circumference of the arm at the biceps, an easily measured proxy for lean body mass, adds to body-mass index (BMI) for risk stratification of patients with heart failure, although ...

Simple, innovative solutions like UNICEF’s Mother-Infant MUAC tape can save countless lives and build healthier futures. A staff member with UNICEF partner Wan Smol Bag uses a MUAC (mid-upper arm ...

This article originally was published on Medical Daily. What does the size of your arm say about you, other than how much you can bench? Maybe whether you will survive heart disease. A study in the ...

Objective: To investigate the association of anthropometric parameters to race performance in ultra-endurance runners in a multistage ultra-endurance run. Design: Descriptive field study. Setting: The ...