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 ...

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 ...

Mid-arm circumference (AC) measurement is a prerequisite for the selection of properly sized blood pressure (BP) cuffs and accurate BP readings. This study examined trends in the frequency ...

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 anthropometric measurement of mid-arm muscular area (MAMA) involves overestimation because of various assumptions, this overestimation being progressive with increasing adiposity. However, the ...

A study that had appeared in the Journal of Nutrition suggests that measurement of the arm of children leads to better diagnosis of malnutrition than weight-based measurements. The traditional method ...

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 . Using a regular-sized BP cuff for all adults regardless of mid-arm circumference can result in “striking” ...

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 ...

DALLAS, March 1, 2022 — Using a one cuff size-fits-all approach when measuring blood pressure may lead to striking inaccuracies in blood pressure measurement and diagnosis, according to preliminary ...