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 ...

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.

Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

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. Published in Obesity and ...

But BMI is so deeply embedded into our healthcare system and public health tracking systems that it wouldn’t be easy to ...

Adults who had an above-average BMI, overweight or obesity during childhood have increased risk for developing chronic ...