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 ...

American children are increasingly tipping the scale, and the extra weight may be putting them at risk for immediate and future health complications, including depression, type 2 diabetes, 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.

Read on to explore these various charts, which connect a person’s weight to their height, age and gender ... or have a higher body mass index (BMI) than a chart indicates is typical for their ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height, and applies to most adult men and women aged 20 and over. For children aged 2 and over, BMI ...

Even medical professionals use BMI to assess health risks associated with obesity, excess or low weight. This calculator computes your body mass index based on your gender, age, height and weight.

The BMI chart offers different values based on two specific determinants: height and weight. That said, age also plays a role ...

According to new studies, measuring a person's 'body roundness index' shows promise as a way to measure obesity and health ...

Background WHO New Growth Standards 2006 are considered appropriate for Indian population and clinicians and anthropologists can assess nutritional status of children much ... for weight-for-age (zwfa ...