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AAP Grand Rounds 17:38 (2007)
© 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics

NUTRITION

BMI >99% Identifies Overweight Children at Greatest Adult Risk

Source: Freedman DS, Mei Z, Srinivasan SR, et al. Cardiovascular risk factors and excess adiposity among overweight children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study. J Pediatr. 2007;150:12–7; doi:10.1016/j.peds.2006.08.042[Medline]

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About 18% of 6- to 19-year-olds in the US are now considered to be overweight, a term which has been chosen for use in the pediatric age group as opposed to obesity, which is felt to be more stigmatizing.1 The accepted anthropometric cutoff for overweight children is defined as a body mass index (BMI)-for-age ≥95th percentile of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) standard growth chart.2 The 95th percentile BMI for adults is defined as obesity and corresponds to a BMI ≥30 kg/m2.2,3 Although clinicians and the lay public have become increasingly aware of this epidemic, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Snyder, MD, FAAP
Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA

 





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