The calculator will also calculate a child's estimated energy requirement ... particularly very active athletic African American teenage boys, can have a high BMI-for-age due to extra muscle mass, not ...

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.

In the study involving 232 mother-child dyads, girls in the responsive parenting group had a 1.00 lower mean BMI compared with girls in the control group (16.32 vs 17.32, P=0.007), but there was no ...

Healthcare professionals should provide behavioral interventions to help children with a high body index manage their weight ...