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 ...

Kids and teens with a high body mass index (BMI) were 29 times more likely to have a high fat mass index compared with youths who had lower BMIs, making the controversial metric a “very good screening ...

The body mass index has long been slammed as a blunt instrument for evaluating health, even more so with new obesity drugs changing the conversation about weight and well-being. Now a study reasserts ...

Because obesity is a complex problem, we must be cautious when we accept easy answers for why children are gaining weight rapidly. Suppose we believe obesity is simply due to eating too much and not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The positive predictive value between high BMI and high fat mass index ranged from 81% to 90%. BMI did not ...

The US Preventive Services Task Force updated its final recommendations Tuesday for how primary care clinicians can best help children with a high body mass index, the measure most practitioners use ...

The beginning was in 2003. Laws requiring school systems to evaluate children using body-mass index (BMI) instruments—a common approach for grouping people based on height and weight—have passed 29 ...

The glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist liraglutide is the first in its class to show benefits in young children with obesity, according to results from the phase 3a SCALE-KIDS trial ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study. Body mass index (BMI) was almost three ...

Children and adolescents who become or remain obese are more than three times as likely to develop hypertension in a 3-year follow-up period compared with those who maintain a normal weight, according ...