Background: Weight for height in children is often assessed by comparing the child's weight-for-age centile with their height-for-age centile. However, this assessment has not been validated ...
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 ...
Every child grows differently – It's totally normal for kids to be bigger or smaller than others at the same age. What's more important is that they grow steadily over time. Growth charts are just a ...
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 heart ...
Parents often wonder about their child's future height, especially when growth seems slower or faster than that of peers. Height prediction is a common topic during pediatric visits and developmental ...
Hypertension in children is frequently undiagnosed. Normal blood pressure is currently defined as a function of two continuous variables, age and height for each gender. Applying the current cutoff ...