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 ...

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 ...

To ensure BP readings are accurate, there’s a need for both a wider range of cuff sizes that match patients’ mid-arm circumference and more-consistent ways of measuring that circumference ahead of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inaccurate blood pressure cuff size is associated with incorrect measurements. Patients and providers should ...

The first step in taking an NIBP is choosing the appropriate site. Because normative values are generally based on this site, the clinician must know on which extremity the BP monitor they are using ...

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 ...

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 recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that Americans are about 15 lbs. (7 kilograms) heavier than they were two decades ago but that Americans' average height ...

People who get their blood pressure checked with a cuff that’s much too tight or too loose on their upper arm won’t get an accurate reading — and may get misdiagnosed as a result. Blood pressure cuffs ...