Body Mass Index

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• CVD risk assessment still important in severely obese adolescents
• Babies' Body Mass Index May Predict Childhood Obesity
• Know if your baby will gain weight by age four
• Strong link between adolescent obesity, high blood pressure

CVD risk assessment still important in severely obese adolescents Posted: 01 Apr 2015 06:26 AM PDT Researchers report a dose–response relationship between body mass index and cardiovascular risk even in severely obese adolescents, making its assessment important to limit further disease progression.

Babies' Body Mass Index May Predict Childhood Obesity Posted: 12 Mar 2015 01:46 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Body mass index (BMI) during infancy may help to predict if a child will be obese by age four. In a study focused on the infant BMI-childhood obesity relationship in a cohort with a majority of African-American children,...

Know if your baby will gain weight by age four Posted: 11 Mar 2015 11:48 PM PDT New York, March 12 (IANS) Measuring body mass index (BMI) during infancy may help to predict if a child will be obese by age four, says a study. The findings suggest that understanding of infant growth patterns may lead to more effective early efforts at obesity prevention. "We also analysed ancestry-based differences in growth patterns and found differences that were apparent as early as nine ...

Strong link between adolescent obesity, high blood pressure Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:20 AM PST Body mass index in healthy adolescents has a statistically significant association with both systolic blood pressures and diastolic blood pressures, research shows, and it highlights the significance of the global trend of rapidly increasing adolescent obesity, experts say.

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