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

Overweight: 85th percentile to the 95th percentile; Obese: 95th percentile or higher; For example, a 6-year-old boy with a 75th percentile BMI has a higher BMI than 75 out of 100 6-year-old boys ...

Further findings included that, for kids and adolescents with a BMI at the 95th percentile, the probability of a high FMI or percentage of body fat was approximately 60%, they noted.

For the comparisons, the researchers considered "high BMI" to be at or above the 95th percentile of the CDC growth charts, which is also often used as a cutoff for obesity.

The CDC's new charts extend BMI-for-age growth charts to 60 kg/m2 with four new percentile curves above the 95th percentile. Prior to the update, BMI charts for children ages 2 to 19 had been ...

Last year, the CDC updated its 22-year-old pediatric BMI-for-age growth charts to add BMIs above the 97th percentile for the first time in order to track severe obesity in children aged 2 to 19 years.

Study reveals that city-level sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes significantly reduce body mass index (BMI) percentiles in children and adolescents. The findings support SSB taxation as a viable ...

The old BMI charts were issued in 2000 based on representative data from the 1960s to 1980s. Because of a lack of data, children with obesity weren’t reflected in those charts, which extended to ...

The body mass index (BMI) and BMI-percentile-for-age (BMI%) do not directly measure body fat. So, while the majority of children with a BMI% over the 85th percentile have too much body fat, very ...

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 ...