Use this calculator to determine whether a child is at a healthy weight for his/her height, age and sex. The BMI-percentile-for-age calculator automatically adjusts for differences in height, age and ...

Adolescent BMI amplifies genetic risk for high blood pressure, with sex-specific differences in how BMI modifies SBP ...

Also included in the two charts are BMI levels at which a child is considered overweight, showing a trend similar to that of the obese value. How accurate is BMI in predicting fat, and what are its ...

Type 1 represents the traditional BMI pathway for a child. Type 2 has a steeper rise and fall before and after the infancy BMI peak, and a less clearly defined adiposity rebound than seen in Type 1.

Children with above-average BMI trajectories are at increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...

In the study involving 232 mother-child dyads, girls in the responsive parenting group had a 1.00 lower mean BMI compared with girls in the control group (16.32 vs 17.32, P=0.007), but there was no ...

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. Published in Obesity and Endocrinology, ...

In the study involving 232 mother-child dyads, girls in the responsive parenting group had a 1.00 lower mean BMI compared with girls in the control group (16.32 vs 17.32, P=0.007), but there was ...