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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out changes to growth charts adding categories for children and adolescents with severe obesity. The charts were based ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

For parents, a visit to the pediatrician usually involves a discussion of where their child falls on a growth chart established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, in a bid for ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

For decades, BMI has been the go-to tool for defining healthy weight, overweight, and obesity, but experts now say it’s not enough. New approaches consider waist size, fat distribution, and body ...

The CDC has released new charts with higher BMIs to follow the growth of children who are severely obese. The previous BMI chart for children, published in 2000, is based on data from 1963 to 1980 but ...

As a pediatric endocrinologist, I am acutely aware of our country's surging and highly alarming childhood obesity rates. What has been a growing epidemic for decades has catapulted into a full-blown ...

Doctors have traditionally consulted BMI charts -- short for body mass index -- to determine whether a person is overweight or obese. But some experts say the charts don't give a complete, accurate ...

BMI is an estimate of body composition based on weight and height. For people of any sex, a moderate BMI is usually 18.5 to 24.9. For people assigned female at birth, BMI does have some limitations.