Waist circumference, not BMI, was tied to increased risk for adiposity-related heart failure, and the association was ...

Look at your belly fat, not your body mass index, a new study says. Excess fat stored around the waist is more strongly ...

Research Highlights Fat stored around the waist, often called belly fat or visceral fat, showed a much stronger link to heart ...

Waist-to-hip ratio is another belly fat measure, which may predict heart attack risk better than BMI, especially in women, ...

Your heart may be aging differently than the rest of you. And, for many Americans, their hearts might be even a decade older than their actual age, new research suggests. Heart disease is the leading ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The hearts of most adults in the U.S. have a higher biological age, which can mean a significant risk for cardiovascular disease. A new online ...

Excess weight in the waist area, also known as visceral fat, is a more accurate predictor of heart failure risk than total ...

You wouldn't wait until your 50s to start saving for retirement — so why wait until your heart is already at risk to start protecting it? Heart disease is spiking among younger people, in part because ...

New research suggests that measures of excess weight around the waist (central obesity or visceral fat) may increase the risk ...