A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

This key metric will be in addition to screening school children for their Body Mass Index (BMI), as part of a plan to prevent India from becoming home to the third-highest global obese population by ...

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. may be ripe in a year. At that time, setmelanotide should be approved for HO in the U.S. and ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

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

Spain’s ministry of health has asked Novo Nordisk for clarification about a controversial obesity awareness campaign which may have broken the country’s law on promoting prescription drugs. The ...

Novo Nordisk’s campaign, which aims to speak ‘without filters’ by declaring obesity a disease, has been strongly criticized ...

clinical obesity: BMI 98th centile + 2.05 SDs. severe obesity: BMI 99.6th centile + 2.68 SDs. Use clinical judgement when interpreting BMI below the 91st centile, especially the healthy weight ...

Doctors use BMI to determine whether a child’s weight fits the criteria for obesity. They use growth charts to compare children of the same age and sex. Experts define BMI categories for ...

According to the organization, childhood obesity is present when the BMI of people ages 2 to 19 is at or above the 95th percentile for their age and sex. Check out the CDC growth charts .

Eligible participants were children (6 to <12 years of age) with obesity, which was defined as an age-adjusted and sex-adjusted BMI in the 95th percentile or higher, according to the Centers for ...