The average length for newborns is between 19 and 20 inches long – to be exact, 19 inches for female babies and 19.75 inches ...

Canadian researchers have devised a low-tech method they say can predict a child's ultimate height within a couple inches. Parents who are curious about their children's future stature can perform the ...

Hsu has also predicted that with the gene sequences of about 1 million people we could construct a good genomic predictor for cognitive ability and identify most of the associated common SNPs. Hsu has ...

If you're the parent of the shortest—or the tallest—kid in the class, you probably understand the fixation about childhood height. Indeed, the emphasis is first placed on size moments after your child ...

Prague, Czech Republic - In the latest effort to improve the ability of body-mass measurements to predict mortality, Swedish researchers are proposing that a third measurement—height—be added to the ...

Calculating a person's waist-to-height ratio is the most accurate and efficient way of identifying whether or not they are at risk of obesity in clinical practice, a new study by Leeds Beckett ...

What’s in your gut might just break your heart — literally. For years, doctors have used body mass index (BMI) as the standard tool for measuring obesity and assessing a patient’s risk of developing ...

Using waist-to-height ratio is more effective at predicting an individual’s heart disease risk than body mass index (BMI), ...