Similarly as with adults, using BMI as a marker for health has limitations. When interpreting BMI in children, looking at a child’s growth trend may be more beneficial than simply looking at the percentile range that their BMI falls within. By traditional interpretations, a child with a ...
It is important that parents incorporate positive eating habits, a healthy diet, which has the potential to keep the child's appetite in a normal range and avoid unnecessary childhood obesity and other eating disorders, thus creating a change in society....
"Our work reiterates that not only are a minority of children identified as obese when they are following healthy growth pathways, but a group of children who become obese later have BMIs in the normal range at four to five years, so are missed." Previous studies have shown that manyhealth...
This CPS is intended to provide clinicians with an overview of clinical practices applicable to children and adolescents with body mass indices in the normal range and body mass indices greater than or equal to the 85th percentile for their ages, particularly those with adverse consequences ...
Maternal malnutrition (BMI<18.5) is the main demographic factor that significantly affect child wasting. The WHZ of children whose mothers' BMI is less than 18.5 was 0.31 (p < 0.01) lower than that of children whose mothers' BMI is in the normal range. On the contrary, children with ...
This is known as familial short stature when one or both parents are short, but the child’s growth rate is normal. Some children may be short during childhood; however, they end up in a normal height range after a late onset of puberty. This is known as a constitutional delay in ...
Child height indicates growth and development, and deviations from the normal range can have health implications. Normal Growth: Average growth is a positive sign of overall health and well-being, suggesting that the child receives adequate nutrition. It is essential to consider a child’s growth ...
Furthermore, the intervention was primarily aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and therefore included children from all BMI-categories, with the majority classified as having normal weight. Due to the above-mentioned reasons, BMI was also defined as our secondary outcome a priori. Still,...
The distributions of weight, height and BMI were reviewed for outliers. BMI was positively skewed and therefore medians rather than means were presented. Median BMI and the prevalences of specific BMI categories (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese) defined using the UK9019 were determined...
At the 5-y interview, children were a mean age of 65 mo (range 57–74 mo) and 1.7% were underweight, 63.9% were normal weight, 18.6% were overweight, and 15.8% were obese. Several participant characteristics differed significantly across maternal prepregnancy BMI categories (Table 1). ...