This paper reviews child and adolescent adiposity measures and associated long-term
health risks. The first section argues that anthropometric measures are practical for large …

The House of Commons Select Committee on obesity, and two expert groups in the USA,
recommend that the body mass index (BMI) of every school child should be measured each …

Renal parenchymal disease after urinary tract infection (UTI) has been associated with the
development of hypertension and renal functional impairment. A systematic literature review …

The aim of the Task Force was to derive continuous prediction equations and their lower
limits of normal for spirometric indices, which are applicable globally. Over 160,000 data …

Objective: To develop an internationally acceptable definition of child overweight and
obesity, specifying the measurement, the reference population, and the age and sex specific …

Background The international (I nternational O besity T ask F orce; IOTF) body mass index
(BMI) cut‐offs are widely used to assess the prevalence of child overweight, obesity and …

Objective To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on
body mass index at age 18 years. Design International survey of six large nationally …

To update the British growth reference, anthropometric data for weight, height, body mass
index (weight/height) and head circumference from 17 distinct surveys representative of …

This report provides Body Mass Index (weight/height2) values for the French population from
birth to the age of 87 years. BMI curves increase during the first year, decrease until the age …

It is now common practice to express child growth status in the form of SD scores. The LMS
method provides a way of obtaining normalized growth centile standards which simplifies …