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The circumference of a man’s waist is a better predictor of his risk of developing type 2 diabetes than his body mass index, which is a weight-to-height ratio, or waist-to-hip ratio alone.

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Communities with more primary-care physicians have lower mortality rates, according to an analysis by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and New York University. The researchers also found that having more specialty-care physicians in a community did not have the same positive impact on health and that increasing the number of specialists would not improve the health status of the U.S. population when compared to other industrialized countries.