For parents, a visit to the pediatrician usually includes a discussion of where the child fell. growth chart Founded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To improve treatment and tracking of children with high body mass index (BMI) now, the agency has issued extended growth chart For kids with BMI not reflected in old charts.
The old BMI chart was published in 2000 based on representative data from the 1960s to the 1980s. because Due to lack of data, obese children were not reflected in these charts and were extended to the 97th percentile and BMI of 37. The new chart extends to a BMI of 60, showing how far a child’s BMI is from the median child’s measurements. Same age and sex.
The CDC defines severe obesity as a BMI above 120% of the 95th percentile of the BMI growth chart for age. For example, a severely obese 2-year-old with a BMI greater than 23 and a severely obese 13-year-old with a BMI greater than 31 for girls and 30 for boys.
Karen Hacker, director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, said in the news: release“Early intervention is critical to improving the health of children as they grow into adults.”
For children and adolescents without obesity, the previous growth chart remains unchanged. CDC decided to retain the existing percentile system to maintain a reference point for historical measurements of BMI and for study comparison purposes.
Obesity prevalence among children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 Rose It increased from 5.2% in 1970-1971 to 19.3% in 2017-2018, according to the CDC. Severe obesity rates in this age group increased from 1% in 1970-1971 to 6.1% in 2017-2018.
