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 ...

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 ...

In patients with heart failure, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and arm muscle circumference (AMC) are more significantly associated with prognosis than guideline-recommended skeletal muscle mass ...

A study that screened young children in Gaza for malnutrition found that nearly 16 percent suffered from wasting in August 2025.

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 ...

To determine the nature of the relationship between mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) in pre- and post-harvest seasons among adult Ethiopian farmers. A total ...

More than 54,600 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, including over 12,800 severely so, with few ...

More than 54,600 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, including over 12,800 severely so, with few ...

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 ...