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Your neck measurement could reveal risk of stroke and heart attack

Doctors need to start measuring their patients NECKS to work out how likely they are to develop a swathe of diseases, claim experts. Previously, GPs have used a combination of the body mass index (BMI ...
Hindustan Times

Cardiologist alerts neck circumference to be the next big predictor of heart diseases: ‘BMI isn’t enough…'

Obesity is one of the common indicators of heart disease. To measure whether a person's weight is within a healthy range or not, BMI or Body Mass Index, is calculated. Now this BMI score gives an ...
JSTOR Daily

Measurement properties of disease-specific questionnaires in patients with neck pain: a systematic review

Purpose To critically appraise and compare the measurement properties of the original versions of neckspecific questionnaires. Methods Bibliographic databases were searched for articles concerning the ...
ascopubs.org

Quality of Dutch integrated head and neck cancer care: Measurement and evaluation.

Measuring quality in cancer care: Utilizing a clinical decision support system to assess pathway adherence. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does ...