BMI was better at its higher end in detecting high body fatness. When looking at children and adolescents at or above the 95th percentile for BMI, it’s important to remember that the CDC growth ...

Obesity rates in children have been on the rise for decades, having quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, and along with the rise in ...

An obesity intervention program that includes computerized clinical decision support for physicians as well as health coaching for families significantly improved BMI rates in obese children ...

The CDC team used a medical record database to compare BMI changes in 432,302 US children between the ages of 2 and 19 before and during the pandemic.

Children who started 2020 at a normal weight, or overweight, showed an increased rate of BMI across the board, according to the new study, published Friday, while the underweight cohort saw little ...

An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset ...

The rate of body mass index change in children nearly doubled from March to November 2020 compared to the rate of BMI change before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published Thursday ...

An abnormal BMI in children – be it high or low – can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalised before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Children need more than a good night’s sleep to have a healthy weight, according to a new study in the journal Obesity that explores the relationship between sleep, body mass ...

An abnormal BMI in children – be it high or low – can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalised before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Children need more than a good night’s sleep to have a healthy weight, according to a new study in the journal Obesity that explores the relationship between sleep, body mass ...