Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children

ey0018.11-11 | Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children | ESPEYB18

11.11. Evaluation of BMI metrics to assess change in adiposity in children with overweight and moderate and severe obesity

SE Barlow , M Salahuddin , C Durand , SJ Pont , DM Hoelscher , NF Butte

Obesity (Silver Spring) 2020 Aug;28(8):1512–1518. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32935936/These authors analysed a cohort of n=399 overweight and obese children (age 212 years), who underwent a 1-year lifestyle intervention, to test whether possible alternatives to the BMI z-score (%BMIp95, %BMIp50, BMImz) might correlate better with changes in % total body fat (%BF) a...

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ey0018.11-12 | Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children | ESPEYB18

11.12. A longitudinal comparison of alternatives to body mass index Z-Scores for children with very high body mass indexes

DS Freedman , AJ Goodwin Davies , L Kompaniyets , SJ Lange , AB Goodman , T Tam Phan , FS Cole , A Dempsey , N Pajor , I Eneli , DA Christakis , CB Forrest

J Pediatr. 2021 Mar 5;S0022-3476(21)00211-0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33676932/The authors analysed BMI data from 10.8 million children and adolescents from the PEDSnet database (USA), collected longitudinally between 1999-2019, to examine the tracking of various BMI metrics (BMIz, BMImz, BMIz extended, %BMIp95, %BMIp50,%BMIp50 adjusted| calculated according to CDC growth char...

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ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2021

11. Obesity and Weight Regulation

11.11. Evaluation of BMI metrics to assess change in adiposity in children with overweight and moderate and severe obesity

11.12. A longitudinal comparison of alternatives to body mass index Z-Scores for children with very high body mass indexes

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