Health officials revise tool to track severe obesity in kids

Medical X-Press – Joel Aleccia

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now extend to a body mass indexof 60—up from previous charts that stopped at a BMI of 37, with additional categories to track obesity in kids ages 2 to 19.

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