Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, the CDC released new BMI-for-age growth charts for children. The CDC defines severe obesity as a BMI ...

For parents, a visit to the pediatrician usually involves a discussion of where their child falls on a growth chart established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, in a bid for ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out changes to growth charts adding categories for children and adolescents with severe obesity. The charts were based ...

As a pediatric endocrinologist, I am acutely aware of our country's surging and highly alarming childhood obesity rates. What has been a growing epidemic for decades has catapulted into a full-blown ...

The CDC has released new charts with higher BMIs to follow the growth of children who are severely obese. The previous BMI chart for children, published in 2000, is based on data from 1963 to 1980 but ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the ...

Despite the limitations of body mass index (BMI), the measure effectively screened children and adolescents for elevated adiposity, both as expressed by fat mass index (FMI) and percentage of body fat ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

I have found a wonderful resource for families: a free BMI calculator (https://mygrowthcharts.com). A family account saves data, tracks growth online, uses standard World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

An inexpensive measure of obesity in children and adolescents that could replace body mass index (BMI) has been identified in a new study as waist circumference-to-height ratio. This measure detected ...