Childhood Obesity Crisis Leads CDC to Expand BMI Charts

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC released new extended BMI-for-age growth charts on Thursday to include children and adolescents with severe obesity. Charts now extend to a BMI of 60, and severe obesity is defined as 120% of the 95th percentile, to...
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