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 ...

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 ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.­­­—A study that tracked body mass index (BMI) two years prior to the pandemic and one year after the start of the pandemic in a primarily Medicaid pediatric population in Norfolk, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I would like to be able to show parents their child's ideal weight range to help convince some of them that their child is overweight. Traditional charts for children are often difficult to show to ...

Infant BMI is good predictor of obesity at age two BMI at two months is more accurate than measuring weight-for-length Date: April 22, 2016 Source: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Summary: Babies ...

A new study shows that parents are more likely to understand a body mass index chart if it's color-coded, like a traffic light, than the standard charts currently in use. A new study shows that ...

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 ...

GLP-1s, specifically semaglutide, had the largest effect on decreasing body mass index and maintaining weight management in children, according to a study published June 18 in JAMA Network. Current ...

Babies with a high body mass index (BMI) at age two months are at risk for obesity at age two years, say pediatric researchers. The authors, in an online study published today in Pediatrics, say that ...