Body Mass Index can help clinicians diagnose obesity and signs of health conditions ranging from anorexia to diabetes to coronavirus. However, the body metric needs details about your age, height, ...

Weight is a heavy topic (see what I did there?). It should go without saying that this point that you're so much more than a number on a scale, and that many factors affect your overall health, ...

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 ...

Unlike BMI charts, the more widely used WFL charts, do not have an age component; therefore, children with similar WFL may differ greatly in age. Because gains in weight and length occur at different ...

I would like to be able to show parents their child's ideal weight range to help convince some of them that their child is overweight. Traditional charts for children are often difficult to show to ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

An increase in BMI following 6 months of therapy for a hypothalamic tumor in children is a risk factor for mortality caused by hypothalamic obesity, with the risk rising in children diagnosed at age 6 ...