Background: Weight for height in children is often assessed by comparing the child's weight-for-age centile with their height-for-age centile. However, this assessment has not been validated ...

A healthy weight can depend on many factors, including your age, sex, muscle mass, bone mass, and lifestyle. Some measures, like body mass index (BMI), do not take all of these measures into account.

If you wonder how your body sizes up to others your age, it can help to compare to the average weight and height of teenagers. Keep in mind there are several factors that affect the average weight of ...

Body Mass Index can help clinicians diagnose obesity and signs of health conditions ranging from anorexia to diabetes to coronavirus. However, the body metric needs details about your age, height, ...

Babies develop at very different rates, both physically and when reaching developmental milestones like sitting, walking or ...

American children are increasingly tipping the scale, and the extra weight may be putting them at risk for immediate and future health complications, including depression, type 2 diabetes, and heart ...

Like many new parents, you might be wondering if your baby is growing at a healthy rate. Questions like "What is the average newborn weight?" or "How much should a 1-year-old weigh?" are common. While ...

The charts that doctors use when assessing a baby's birth weight should take into account the mother's ethnicity, to better predict health problems after birth, a new study from Canada suggests. For ...