Children grow at different rates, and it's normal for weight and height to vary significantly between kids of the same age. What's more important is that your child is growing steadily.

The National Center for Health Statistics measured adults and children to see weight, height and other size trends ...

Specifically, children whose baseline body weight was in the 60th to 84th percentiles of BMI — what the researchers deemed the “upper range of normal” — were at an increased risk for ...

Above average-weight babies may require extra medical attention to make sure their blood sugar levels are kept in a normal ... use in the U.S. for infants and children 0 to 2 years of age. (2010) ...

The weight range for 13-year-old boys is between 75 and 145 pounds. Weights in the 50th percentile for this age land at 100 pounds. If a child falls into the 50th percentile for weight, this means ...

To tell whether a young adolescent has a healthy weight, it can help to know the average for their age and sex. The averages for 12-year-olds are 89 pounds, for males, and 92 pounds, for females ...

For these younger children, the Moore and McLaren methods had the largest divergence with a median difference of 13.7% for the percentage of ideal body weight for kids with a BMI of 21.5 (95% CI ...

PASADENA, Calif. — A Kaiser Permanente study of more than 800,000 young people between the ages of 3 and 17 showed that youth at the upper range of average weight had a 26% higher risk of ...