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 85thpercentile for their ages, particularly those with adverse consequences resulting...
Boys born at full-term and normal birth weight were included, but those who were dieting, taking medication, and who had Participants Nineteen normal weight boys (between the 5th and 85th age- and sex-specific BMI percentile) with a mean age of 12.0 ± 0.5 years participated in this...
Childhood obesity is defined as greater than or equal to the 90th percentile for BMI-for-age (weight-for-height-for-age) on growth charts for children aged 2 - 20 years.An age structure diagram that is broad at the base and narrow at the top wou...
guidelines pertaining to male youths, specifically those aged 16 and within the 95th height percentile. The results were markedly more disconcerting for women. Across all assessed ATVs, every female youth under the age of ten, irrespective of height, failed to meet at least one fitness guideline...
bmi percentilekids screen 27hrqolBackground: In order to know the effect of overweight condition on Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in adolescents, it is necessary to compare the HRQOL of overweight adolescents to that of normal adolescents.Aim: To compare the Health Related Quality of ...