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

A brief research report evaluated obesity among U.S. children and adolescents from 2011 to August 2023 and compared changes ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ] ...

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 ...

Bariatric surgery, recommended by the AAP for children 13 and above with severe obesity, also gave some pediatricians pause. A 2019 literature review found that a notable share of candidates for ...

Several citations in the original report, which focuses on children’s health, referenced papers that did not exist. White ...

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 ...