parents who plot the calculator results should watch for significant 'drifting', either up or down, in their child's BMI% over time. For example, a 62-pound, 50-inch tall, 8-year-old girl has a BMI of ...
The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.
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Early Parenting Advice Lowers Kids' Later BMIIn the study involving 232 mother-child dyads, girls in the responsive parenting group had a 1.00 lower mean BMI compared ...
Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight as a waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.
Two-thirds of children classified BMI-overweight had normal fat estimated with waist-to-height ratio
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. Body mass index (BMI) was almost ...
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