Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Background New Zealand children's health and fitness performance is declining over time, but whether this change is because of deterioration in all children's health and fitness performance or can be ...

If you're looking for a child's BMI, use BMI percentile, which estimates a child or young person's weight compared with his or her peers of the same age, height, and sex. The Takeaway ...

HealthDay News — Children on the path to obesity can be detected as early as age 3.5 years, according to a study published online May 22 in JAMA Network Open.. Chang Liu, Ph.D., from Washington State ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not provide the most accurate screening for skeletal muscle deficits among youth with pediatric‐onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study in the Journal of ...

Height and weight data were extracted from the latest medical records, and sex - and age - specific body mass index (BMI) z-scores and percentiles were calculated using the World Health Organization ...

A well, tall child with a normal examination and tall parents is likely to have familial tall stature but the apparently well prepubertal child may still have an underlying chromosomal abnormality.

However, higher BMI percentiles were linked to lower BUT and TMH, as well as increased meiboscore and tortuosity. Similarly, older children had higher OSDI scores and BMI percentiles and lower BUT ...

British Journal of Nutrition published a study that found the BMI formula, which is widely used to determine body fat, may not be accurate for non-Caucasian, multicultural populations. The current BMI ...

The atypical group (10.6%) showed a stable BMI from ages 1 to 3.5 years, followed by rapid linear increases from ages 3.5 to 9 years, with a mean BMI at age 9 years of 26.2 kg/m 2, which exceeded ...