The calculator will also calculate a child's estimated energy requirement ... particularly very active athletic African American teenage boys, can have a high BMI-for-age due to extra muscle mass, not ...

The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.

Most children aged 9 and 15 years with BMI in overweight range had a normal fat level. High and excess fat according to waist-to-height ratio was tied to higher odds for prediabetes and diabetes.

Background WHO New Growth Standards 2006 are considered appropriate for Indian population and clinicians and anthropologists can assess nutritional status of children much ... for-age (zhfa) and ...