An electronic health record (EHR) program to help primary care doctors address child obesity is an effective tool to promote positive body mass index (BMI) trends, especially among young children with ...

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 ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most children aged 9 and 15 years with BMI in overweight range had a normal fat level. High and excess fat ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging the traditional view of weight status. The findings suggest that BMI ...