The nation’s childhood obesity problem has prompted the Atlanta-based CDC to change its BMI growth charts for kids.

But as obesity and severe obesity became more prevalent in the past 40 years – more than 4.5 million children and teens had severe obesity in 2017-18, the agency says – the charts hadn’t ...

Children whose weight puts them in the 95th percentile, or heavier than 95 percent of children their age according to a chart from 2000, are considered to have obesity. [ 1 ] ...

Treating childhood obesity early can help prevent health ... Being at or above the 95th percentile on the chart for weight can mean a child has obesity. In 2000, the Centers for Disease ...

The CDC's updated growth charts now allow for a classification of obesity in children that extends to a body mass index, or BMI, of 60, up from an index that had stopped at 37. The extended BMI ...

The study found body mass index (BMI) patterns that could predict obesity, with findings published in Jama Network Open.

Measuring children, aged 5 to 14 years, who are overweight or obese is challenging because there is not a standard definition of childhood obesity applied worldwide. Figures for children in England ...

Pediatrics > Obesity Childhood Obesity Rate Now Exceeds 1 in 5 Kids, Teenagers — Troubling trends since 2011 across age, race, and ethnicity. by James Lopilato, Staff Writer, MedPage Today July ...

The guidelines, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, are the first comprehensive update to the academy’s obesity treatment guidelines in 15 years. They provide guidance for treatment of ...