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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2021

11. Obesity and Weight Regulation

Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children

ey0018.11-11 | Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children | ESPEYB18

11.11. Evaluation of BMI metrics to assess change in adiposity in children with overweight and moderate and severe obesity

SE Barlow , M Salahuddin , C Durand , SJ Pont , DM Hoelscher , NF Butte

Obesity (Silver Spring) 2020 Aug;28(8):1512–1518. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32935936/These authors analysed a cohort of n=399 overweight and obese children (age 2–12 years), who underwent a 1-year lifestyle intervention, to test whether possible alternatives to the BMI z-score (%BMIp95, %BMIp50, BMImz) might correlate better with changes in % total body fat (%BF) a...

ey0018.11-12 | Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children | ESPEYB18

11.12. A longitudinal comparison of alternatives to body mass index Z-Scores for children with very high body mass indexes

DS Freedman , AJ Goodwin Davies , L Kompaniyets , SJ Lange , AB Goodman , T Tam Phan , FS Cole , A Dempsey , N Pajor , I Eneli , DA Christakis , CB Forrest

J Pediatr. 2021 Mar 5;S0022-3476(21)00211-0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33676932/The authors analysed BMI data from 10.8 million children and adolescents from the PEDSnet database (USA), collected longitudinally between 1999-2019, to examine the tracking of various BMI metrics (BMIz, BMImz, BMIz extended, %BMIp95, %BMIp50,%BMIp50 adjusted| calculated according to CDC growth char...